Google's .new shortcuts are coming to other websites, and you'll be able to register your own
Last year, Google introduced the handy ".new" shortcuts for Google Docs, Slides, and Sheets, so you could type something like "docs.new," into your browser's URL bar and a fresh G Suite document of that kind would open in a new tab. Soon, you might see a lot of other websites using .new shortcuts. Google announced today that you'll be able to register a .new domain for an online shortcut of your own.
A number of companies have .new shortcuts that are live now, such as Spotify's playlist.new, which will let you create a new Spotify playlist. Bitly, Canva, Coda, Medium, OVO Sound, RunKit, Stripe, and Webex also have shortcuts.
Anyone can apply to register a .new domain starting on December 2nd, and Google tells The Verge that Google Registry will allocate the first batch of domains from those applicants in January 2020. Google's policies say that a .new domain must bring the user directly to the shortcut or action, however. If it doesn't, the domain may be suspended or deleted by Google Registry.
I'm holding out for new.playlist/, new.doc/, and new.xls/.
Previously: Google Uses ".new" gTLD to Ease Creation of New Google Documents
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Wednesday October 30 2019, @09:31PM (1 child)
From the article:
Wait, I thought a dot at the end of the domain is not only supposed to work, but actually more secure because it cannot be misinterpreted as relative domain.
Just tried soylentnews.org. and got indeed SN, but not logged in (apparently the browser didn't recognize it as the same site and didn't send the login cookie).
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 31 2019, @01:38AM
The dot at the end makes it a fully qualified domain name (FQDN). This is technically a different name because the resolver will add the system search domain when looking up a name when not a FQDN. For example, you can have a search domain of "internal.corporate.example." When you type "soylentnews.org" in the browser, your system will first look for "soylentnews.org.internal.corporate.example." and then when that fails, search from the root with "soylentnews.org." Theoretically, if your router or system is hacked, it could set a search domain to "maliciousresolver.invalid" and that means all your DNS requests will be to their space first if they weren't fully-qualified.