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Google's New .dev Domain Opens To All (engadget.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the dev-TLD dept.

On Thursday, Google began officially selling their new .dev domains to anyone, Engadget reports: To claim a .dev, all you need to do is sign up with your registrar of choice (Google, naturally, is an option). As a bonus, Google is offering a free .dev domain to anyone who applied for a ticket to the Google I/O event happening this May.

The domains will be secure by default, as they all require HTTPS, and Google has already moved many of its own sites (including web.dev, opensource.dev and flutter.dev) to the domain.
"The internet has come a long way from the days of .com, .org and .net," writes Engadget. "Now, you can get domains ending in anything from .cool to .ninja."

UPDATE (3/3/2019): Apparently the domain emacs.dev now points to the web site for Vim.

22 of 57 comments (clear)

  1. HTTPS by default?... by dabadab · · Score: 2

    The domains will be secure by default, as they all require HTTPS,

    What does that even actually mean?

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    1. Re:HTTPS by default?... by Ignorant+Aardvark · · Score: 5, Informative

      See here for an explanation: https://security.googleblog.co...

      TL;DR is the entire TLD is on the HSTS preload list.

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    2. Re:HTTPS by default?... by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 1

      The domains will be secure by default, as they all require HTTPS,

      What does that even actually mean?

      It's good to know that Google has figured out a way to prevent criminals and other evildoers from running https on their web servers.

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  2. Too many by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    People got .com - you entered the name and added .com. Now people are forgetting what a URL even is, thanks in part to google who has confused them with the difference between a search on google and entering in an address. By adding more .TLDs google further aids this confusion. It also allows confusion between legitimate and illegitimate sites for various brands and products and generates a way of forcing companies to register more and more different .TLDs to protect their trademarks and web presence. Google, internet cartel.

    1. Re:Too many by Actually,+I+do+RTFA · · Score: 1

      Well, Google also loves the new TLDs because it makes the whole URL system less understandable to most people. I mean, they already are training you not to understand the difference between a search query (forwarded to them) and a URL in the address bar.

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  3. Goatse.dev already taken by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    So much for my plans.

  4. In related news ... by fahrbot-bot · · Score: 4, Funny

    Google's New .dev Domain Opens To All

    And their new ".notadev" domain opens to everyone else. Paradox imminent.

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    1. Re:In related news ... by Stan42 · · Score: 1

      Agree to this ! Unless they expand...

  5. Re:Why did google get a top level domain? by omnichad · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You're missing a lot. Since 2011, in fact.

  6. Amazing by Time_Ngler · · Score: 3, Funny

    "The internet has come a long way from the days of .com, .org and .net," writes Engadget. "Now, you can get domains ending in anything from .cool to .ninja."

    What progress!

  7. Require SSL? by Bert64 · · Score: 1

    How can a domain "require ssl"?

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    1. Re:Require SSL? by whoever57 · · Score: 2

      Someone already asked that question and it has been answered.

      https://security.googleblog.co...

      Basically, browsers recognize the domain on a list and the browser enforces https.

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    2. Re: Require SSL? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Browsers do? All browsers? But not curl, wget, my python code? Lame

  8. Now with surge pricing... by null+etc. · · Score: 3, Informative

    These new domain TLDs are apparently enforcing the law of supply and demand, by charging more for "coveted" and popular domains.

    For example, "so.dev" is a 2-letter domain, which Google prices at $720/yr. "sot.dev" is a 3-letter domain, but what the hell is a "sot", so that only cost $98/yr. Meanwhile, "sos.dev" costs $360/yr, because if you really need help, it should cost more. "pants.dev" is $98/yr, but if you want to save some money, you can just register "pant.dev", which is $56/yr.

    Even though this "nickel and dime" pricing is just the latest extension to our capitalist overlords trying to suck us dry for every cent we have, I hate the idea.

    1. Re:Now with surge pricing... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      I think it's 50/50 getting money but also, the reason they charge a premium for shorter domains is otherwise it'd be fairly cheap to bot-register the entire domain space say, 12 characters and under, and then flip them all via auction

    2. Re:Now with surge pricing... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      More likely they use analysis of similarly named domains on other TLDs. Some suckers even used Google analytics on their .com to make it easier for Google to squeeze out every last cent. Think high speed trading meets real estate tycoon.

    3. Re:Now with surge pricing... by CRC'99 · · Score: 2

      Agreed. I threw in my online alias into it, $260/yr for the first year. Tried with another registrar, $19.95/yr....

      Seems like Google is playing the game.

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  9. It's a trap. Google will steal your domain. by goombah99 · · Score: 1

    I just went to the google accelerated page for Reddit on my iphone safari browser. Guess what? It's no longer accessible in safari! google forces you to use chrome to reach it. Google is breaking the internet.

    If you get a .dev page then after a year it's going to not respond to https. it's will be only a google accelerated page only and only vailble by Ghttp protocol.

    don't fall for it.

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  10. Re:This Could Be Awkward by fahrbot-bot · · Score: 1

    Confusion between the .fap and .faq domains led to the gTLD wars of 2030...

    And creation of the seeming complimentary, but actually orthogonal, sub-domains "faq.fap" and "fap.faq" certainly did help. By comparison, the great Emacs vs Vi religious wars of the late 20th century now seems like a minor kerfuffle.

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  11. Just don't by AHuxley · · Score: 1

    dev an advanced and new ad blocker.

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  12. Somebodies registered vim.dev and emacs.dev by watanuki · · Score: 2

    Check them out:

    www.vim.dev
    www.emacs.dev

    I did not found this, read it somewhere :)

  13. Re:Domain names are a protection racket by omnichad · · Score: 1

    That's a nice phone number you have there. Be a pity if you didn't pay your bill and lost your number. Right, that's literally what the bill is for.