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

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.

9 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.

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

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

  4. 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!

  5. 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 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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  6. 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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  7. 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 :)