12000 a pop and filed under "small business".
Ok.
First .dev Domains Go Live
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#12I sort of get the appeal of a '.dev' TLD, but I wish that google donated the whole thing to those who were using it informally for local development.
That would have been a good gift to all the devs out there.
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#13There is one thing that annoys me about generic TLDs like .dev, .website, .cloud, .network etc. For example, Salesforce have https://crm.dev - are they the only CRM in the world? Hell no, but they're the biggest, so they can be the only one in the .dev space. Same with workers.dev.
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
The sunrise period for trademark owners was a whole month until today, with a much more reasonable price tag.
That makes more sense. I had missed that there was a sunrise period for the .dev tld.
Sunrise periods are required for all new gTLDs by ICANN.
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#15On 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=19178757
If the answer is they keep your domains, like they do with Adsense revenue when they ban accounts, then you should definitely be getting your .dev through a different domain provider who Google cannot avoid cooperating with because of ICANN rules they have to follow.
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#16I sort of get the appeal of a '.dev' TLD, but I wish that google donated the whole thing to those who were using it informally for local development. That would have been a good gift to all the devs out there.
There are more devs than just web devs. Just sayin'
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#17Slack and Github were so worried about someone cybersquatting that they were willing to pay $11,500 each to get those domains today? I guess that's the point of the Dutch auction system, but still seems like a waste of money.
It's the cost of coffee for a couple of days or so.
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#18I sort of get the appeal of a '.dev' TLD, but I wish that google donated the whole thing to those who were using it informally for local development. That would have been a good gift to all the devs out there.
The `.test` and `.localhost` TLDs are already reserved for such purposes: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2606
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#19I'd really like to see which .dev domains are getting registered at the higher prices. Is there any way to see a feed of this data?
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#20Stupid expensive for what really?
They get progressively cheaper as we approach February 28. After that, I believe registrations are free with a $12 maintenance cost.
Minor correction, registrations are never free. Come 2019-02-28 16:00:00Z, they will be available at the base price. Registrars set their own prices, so depending on which registrar you're using, expect that to be around $12-20/yr (including the initial year).