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Google Taking Over New TLDs
bobo the hobo writes: In the corner of the internet where people care about DNS, there is a bit of an uproar at Google's application for over a hundred new top-level domains, including .dev, .lol, .app, .blog, .cloud and .search. Their application includes statements such as: "By contrast, our application for the .blog TLD describes a new way of automatically linking new second level domains to blogs on our Blogger platform – this approach eliminates the need for any technical configuration on the part of the user and thus makes the domain name more user friendly." They also mention limiting usage of .dev to Google only: "Second-level domain names within the proposed gTLD are intended for registration and use by Google only, and domain names under the new gTLD will not be available to the general public for purchase, sale, or registration. As such, [Google's shell company] intends to apply for an exemption to the ICANN Registry Operator Code of Conduct as Google is intended to be the sole registrar and registrant."
If I am looking for Foobar Inc's website, and I see www.foobar.com, I can be pretty sure that is legitimate
Maybe legitimate, but there may be 10 companies in the world called 'foobar', so you still don't know if you've got the right one.
I think .dev should be like example.com: not able to register so DEVELOPERS (re: NOT GOOGLE) can use like, [mydomain].dev to develop, and not have to create wonky local host names.
RFC 2606 reserves 4 TLDs for this purpose: .test .example .invalid .localhost
I've always used .test for domains for QA/test deployments. It also reserves the example.* second level domain name across all TLDs.
I think there are some other reserved TLDs, including ".xy" and some 63-character name that was something like "sixtythreecharacterdomainnamefortestingpurposes" , but I can't find the RFC. Anyone?
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.dev was never reserved. so use .dev.local, which is reserved for your LAN.