Kinda weird that Google issued itself web.dev and opensource.dev It feels like those would've been better suited for non-profit orgs
Well they are the owner/operator of .dev, so first dibs are for them.
First .dev Domains Go Live
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#132Do TLDs even matter? I'm working on building a professional blog, and although a .dev TLD seems appropriate, using a cheaper one like .co or .be, or even .io seems functionally identical and a lot less costly. Paying hundreds or thousands for .dev seems like paying for pure vanity. Is it going to help people reach your site? I kinda doubt it. Will Google use it to index your site differently? Maybe, but I dunno. I ho…
Just don't forget that .co is subject to Columbian jurisdiction, .be to Belgian jurisdiction, and .io to British jurisdiction. Also, .io has colonialist/imperialist baggage: https://gigaom.com/2014/06/30/the-dark-side-of-io-how-the-u-...
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For what reasons does Google actually ban accounts?
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?
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#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
Try to register through Gandi. They give you options that decrease in price all the way down to ~$16 -- that's the "get it when it GAs" price. If someone scoops it up before you, you're refunded. Otherwise, it's yours. I managed to get .dev, and it's a somewhat common last name, for $133.50 on the "GA" pricing. I expect someone will grab it before then. But if not...
Nah, it says "Unavailable" on Gandi. It seems that somebody paid full price, although it is not operative => mauricio.dev
Unfortunately, 'mauricio' is on the global domain reserve list administered by ICANN, so it cannot be registered on any ngTLD. I believe it's Mauritius in another language?
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#136Earlier quoted context omitted.
What happens to the domains in your account if your Google account has become banned? Same question for your colleagues at Google Domains.
What account? There's nothing to login to, you can't buy domains directly on Google Registry.
My bad, it's Google Domains.
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#137There 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.
Owning a category domain name is not a guarantee of success or market position. (ex. pets.com)
Think of all the companies with domain names that do not reference their product category. (ex. google.com, amazon.com, etc.). It's not like they needed search.com or shopping.com to be successful.
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Maybe names that have obvious “generic” squatter value—i.e. names that (at the time of their attempted purchase) describe entire verticals, rather than uniquely identifying a business—should be put up for auction rather than being first-come-first-served. (That would also include names that describe a vertical that someone tried to trademark into being the name of a business anyway: pets.com and the like. If that tra…
Well the .dev domains are going up in a "dutch auction" style. The price starts off at an insane $11,500 per domain, and then slowly over the course of 2 weeks goes down to $12 per domain, first come first serve. It's a pretty good solution in my opinion to the problem of how to "fairly" distribute domain names. I want to pick up a few, but I'm going to wait until they are down to the lowest tier as i'm pretty sure n…
> The price starts off at an insane $11,500 per domain
It's only insane if no one wants to pay that much. I bet tons of companies are willing to pay that for premium .dev domains.
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#139Kinda weird that Google issued itself web.dev and opensource.dev It feels like those would've been better suited for non-profit orgs
Only if you for some reason attribute gravitas to it.
This is just yet another scattershot TLD. It's about as consequential as .ninja in the grand scheme of things.
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Where are you seeing that price? Maybe you found a "premium" domain, the base rate seems to be (will be, after EAP) about $12/year.
Google domains page says $98 a year after early-access.
Doesn't it say "PREMIUM"? Here I'm seeing 12€/year: https://domains.google.com/m/registrar/search?searchTerm=ran...