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Google Launches New .dev TLD (betanews.com)

Posted by msmash on from the for-what-it-is-worth dept.

Google Registry today announced .dev, a brand new top-level domain (TLD) that's dedicated to developers and technology. From a report: The new .dev TLD comes after the company launched .app and .page, all are protected by HTTPS. Google has already used the TLD for a few of its own projects, such as web.dev and opensource.dev, but now it is being opened up to a wider audience. If you are interested in securing yourself a .dev domain, you can register through the Early Access Program.

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  1. Register null.dev by GuB-42 · · Score: 5, Funny

    A new upload service. Unlimited, write-only storage.

    1. Re:Register null.dev by jawtheshark · · Score: 2

      Well.... /dev/null as a Service has existed for a while now.

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  2. Spam, eggs, sausage, and spam by darthsilun · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That's not go much spam in it.
    Another TLD I'll probably have to blacklist in my sendmail.conf.

  3. Re:$11,500 a pop by TFlan91 · · Score: 2

    $11,500 + $12/year

    New business model: Let's come up with new TLD's to force companies to buy their namesake in this new TLD to prevent squatters or miscommunication/disinformation!

  4. ICANN needs to be dismantled by WaffleMonster · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There is no organization more corrupt or deleterious to the continued operation of the network than ICANN. They stopped giving a fuck about best interests of the network decades ago.

    Today they care only about themselves making money from proliferation of TLDs which serves no useful purpose other than assisting phishers and exposing Internet users to unnecessary risk of collision with common internal naming schemes.

    It's time for wholesale change within ICANN. Leadership needs to be replaced with a structure that is accountable to the Interests of the network rather than themselves.

  5. Staged Rollout by mprindle · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Looks like a staged roll-out with the highest prices for day 1 and decreasing from there. I'm guessing it's letting the ones with deep pockets pickup their preferred domain name while paying a large premium to do so. Godaddy has a pretty good layout of the pricing for each day till it reaching the standard of $14ish for the public.

    https://www.godaddy.com/tlds/d...

  6. Re:How can a company control a TLD? by Aqualung812 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ICANN sold out in 2011. There are plenty of corporate owned TLDs now, and it sucks. Where have you been for the past 8 years?
    https://www.voanews.com/a/new-...

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  7. Re: protected by https? by Etcetera · · Score: 2

    Browser default HSTS lists mandate that all connections to .dev are over HTTPS.

    That has nothing to do with the TLD though and everything to do with Google's Chrome monopoly. Quite frankly, this is a great reason *not* to let companies do that: advertise one feature as something when it's actually provided by a distinct unit, and the only reason nobody cares is because it's at monopoly scale.

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