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Re: First .dev Domains Go Live

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Post by jrockway »

OedipusRex wrote: post #128
eugeniub wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A couple years ago ICANN started letting companies buy customized TLDs through an auction process. I'm not sure how much they paid, but for comparison, Google tried buying .blog a while ago but was outbid by Automattic, who paid $19 million. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11686086

This is privatization of the web.

It's not. You can make your own DNS server and sell records to anyone you want. You just have to convince users to type in your address instead of 8.8.8.8.

Re: First .dev Domains Go Live

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Post by celdon25 »

mchannon wrote: post #34

This landrush is different. Try putting a one-character .dev domain in your cart (0.dev is available as of now). It's not a lump sum plus $12/year. It's thousands every year after registration. In a way, I guess this is useful for deterring "domainers". Even a 4-letter word or name .dev is hundreds of dollars a year. I wonder if the annual fee will drop as the days go by or just the purchase price.

It's not "deterring" domainers, it's asserting an unfair monopoly over the practice itself.

Re: First .dev Domains Go Live

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Post by markdown »

CydeWeys wrote: post #55
mslev wrote: post #38

Me: "Wow [myfirstname].dev is available! I gotta get it!" Aaaaaaand its $11,500.

Yeah, it's a Dutch auction. This is the first price step, so everything costs that much today, even adgfhjklhajklsdfghaksdfasdf.dev. The price will go down according to the schedule, and it'll be bought when someone is willing to pay that much for it.

The rich get first pick. How very capitalist.

Re: First .dev Domains Go Live

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Post by technofiend »

qnk wrote: post #88
mslev wrote: post #38

Me: "Wow [myfirstname].dev is available! I gotta get it!" Aaaaaaand its $11,500.

Mine is not available either and I doubt someone paid $11,500 for an Italian name with the dev extension. How come? My guess is some providers are "reserving" them.

Which is exactly why I won't check on any domains I want until I'm ready to buy them: I don't need a "domain taster" locking them up for profit.

Re: First .dev Domains Go Live

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Post by benologist »

babypuncher wrote: post #113
benologist wrote: post #15

On a recent thread Google personnel mentioned that ICANN forces all domain providers to backup their data so that any domain provider going bankrupt won't affect domains. However there was no mention of what procedures Google Domains themselves have put in place to protect their customers in case their customers get irreversibly banned somewhere within Google's vast empire. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=191787…

For what reasons does Google actually ban accounts?

Information withheld - https://www.reddit.com/r/k12sysadmin/comments/9qg2vw/google_...

System errors - https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/7nrx07/google_...

We're twenty years in so likely there are actually thousands of legitimate reasons, the problem is their system seems designed to dismiss any evidence to the contrary so a false positive is a lifetime ban too.

Re: First .dev Domains Go Live

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Post by agentdrtran »

all2 wrote: post #133
core-questions wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google owns Youtube, which bans people for any reason they feel like, including people for whom it had become a full-time job with their channel monetization paying the bills. It is extremely unwise and very much against the founding spirit of the Internet to allow one company this much control, especially one that has shown itself to be censorious in the past.

Wait, does a YT ban extend to all Google products? Does this lock someone out of, say, webmaster tools?

No, it doesn't.
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