Domain squatting for auto linking of Java properties files
To no surprise, these days are mostly spent supporting the open source (but commercially backed) QZ Tray printing plugin . As part of our support offering, we're in constant communication with customers regarding technical matters, and in our case, modifying a Java properties file for various settings in the software, is just par for the course. In our case specifically, we call our file qz-tray.properties . What was a surprise is that through a series of email exchanges with end-users, this above filename "qz-tray.properties" had become an automatic-hyperlink between email exchanges. Upon investigation, this TLD (top level domain) of ".properties" was approved way back in 2014 (at time of writing, 10 years ago!), predominantly to fulfill the demand of online namespace for real estate companies. To put this in context, if someone were curious/inquiring and tried to quickly search " qz-tray.properties " from a browser address bar, it would result in a