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Re: Google .dev domain early access

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Post by barbarr »

nisuni wrote: post #2

How much did it cost to buy the TLD? Looks like a very good investment that will repay itself quite easily.

There's a nonzero chance that the investment could be a dud if people simply don't like the TLD, the same way how no one (except a few people [1]) like the .bike TLD.

[1] http://poop.bike

Re: Google .dev domain early access

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Post by pluc »

The .dev TLD worked fine before it was bought. Now we have to use .test or .local.

I don't get what Google thinks they'll get out of sponsoring putting sites under development online.

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Post by ocdtrekkie »

sascha_sl wrote: post #9

Besides the usual disregard decency let's HSTS preload a TLD people have been using for local development for decades... This is terrible gatekeeping and I hope Google perishes soon. Wow. I can't get over how fucking dumb this is. This is the mark of a corporation filled with people that thinks putting a price tag on supposedly scarce good early will deter bad actors. Clearly everyone who thought this up has way too…

Yes, this, though I really am disappointed in ICANN here. ICANN should not have sold a TLD known to be in heavy use already. Their desire for cash from this process seems to have overwhelmed their good sense in managing the domain system.

Re: Google .dev domain early access

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Post by _wmd »

A domain just for developers! Until it abruptly shuts down Feb 19, 2021. Why would anyone trust Google with something with any kind of long-term requirements as important as a name? They should have registered ".chump" instead, because that is really what users of a Google-managed TLD are declaring

"Dear VALUED developer, thanks so much for being a part of the .dev experiment! After a long hard period of staring at our shoes, we realized we cannot extract sufficient value from our users in this manner. As of midnight, your name will automatically be migrated to our newer, better, faster TLD, .plus, the future of the open web"

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Post by fastball »

sascha_sl wrote: post #9

Besides the usual disregard decency let's HSTS preload a TLD people have been using for local development for decades... This is terrible gatekeeping and I hope Google perishes soon. Wow. I can't get over how fucking dumb this is. This is the mark of a corporation filled with people that thinks putting a price tag on supposedly scarce good early will deter bad actors. Clearly everyone who thought this up has way too…

If you've been using .dev for local development, that means you've either been setting it in your hosts or using your own DNS server until now, which you can continue to do with a .dev TLD.
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