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

The explosion of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) in recent years can put enterprise computers at risk due to name conflicts between domain names used inside corporate networks and those registered on the public Internet. Over 65 percent of the WPAD query leaks originated from computers in the U.S. The issue has prompted the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) to publish a security alert Monday. There are over 20 million leaked WPAD queries hitting the servers every day, accounting for at least 6.6 million potential user victims.”]

Source: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3074509/top-level-domain-expansion-is-a-security-risk-for-business-computers.html