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Top-level domain expansion is a security risk for business computers

March 20, 2017

Via: CSO
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The explosion of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) in recent years can put enterprise computers at risk due to name conflicts between internal domain names used inside corporate networks and those that can now be registered on the public Internet.

Many companies have configured their networks to use domain names, in many cases with made-up TLDs that a few years ago didn’t use to exist on the Internet, such as .office, .global, .network, .group, .school and many others.

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