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Google .dev domain early access
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Re: Google .dev domain early access
#242Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a nice way to earn a bit of cash from larger companies who do not want "company.dev" associated with porn or malicious content. Imagine if "unity.dev" or "disney.dev" pointed to a cesspool of viruses.
There are icann rules for launching a tld. There is a period for tm holders. Most companies are going to get their company.dev during the tm period. If they don’t, three is always the udrp process.
So big companies with big money won't have to shell out cash because there's a TM period for them but smaller one got to buck out 10,000 bucks to prevent cyber squatting ?
Re: Google .dev domain early access
#243Earlier quoted context omitted.
Every bad web dev bitches about it. There's nothing about Safari that makes it "the new IE8". Ironically, the very same HN that bemoans every new thing as "why should devs jump onto this shiny new things, just slow down already" criticises Safari for not jumping onto every new thing.
Ironically, the very same HN that bemoans every new thing as "why should devs jump onto this shiny new things, just slow down already" criticises Safari for not jumping onto every new thing. HN is quite diverse and I'm pretty sure those are two disjoint sets of users. (I'm in the former group myself --- not a fan of presenting information in such a way as to decrease its accessibility while also increasing resource u…
> I bet I could make those accordion sections work in all browsers going back to IE5 without much effort, and use nothing near 120KB of JS to do it.
/ tags with JS polyfill is all you'd need.
Re: Google .dev domain early access
#244A while ago, some posts on HN went around saying that you shouldn't use third-world TLDs for your startup because some of them are unreliable stewards who would put your domain at risk. Does registering a .dev domain make you dependent on Google in the same way that registering a .ly makes you dependent on Libya?
There was this one guy who lost a valuable Twitter handle due to him using his custom domain email (via GoDaddy) as a login email.[0] I'd like to think imagine Google is better than GoDaddy when it comes to security and fighting social-engineering attacks but who knows. But if Google is a weak link wouldn't that also mean all our gmails are not as safe as we think? [0] https://medium.com/@N/how-i-lost-my-50-000-twitt…
I don't really understand the worry here though. Aren't you always trusting your registrar when you buy a domain name? Google at least has a pretty solid track recordin wrt security.
Re: Google .dev domain early access
#245Not very equitable of them. You get in line in order of wealth.
Re: Google .dev domain early access
#246When in doubt, racketeer. I've been annoyed by how Google uses Adwords for a while; suppose you're company in a competitive, undifferentiated space. I just searched for "enterprise rental cars," and the first thing below the search box, an ad, was for getaround.com. The second was an ad for Enterprise, the third was the organic result for Enterprise. Google is effectively telling these companies "You wouldn't want so…
google.com isn't a public place, it also isn't a particularly valuable plot of "land" aside the private goliath built upon it.
The fact people go to Google gives them their power to extort business for ranking. But thats because Google remains valuable - people use it because it works, or at least because of inertia that nothing is remotely better yet, and so long as people still value the search companies can do the cost benefit analysis to know if paying the rent is worth it.
And its fortunate the only people who really care about search ranking are those trying to make money off it. There are a lot more egregious crimes being committed in the privacy space by Alphabet or by rent seekers across the economy than a business making money as a parasite off other businesses trying to make money.
Re: Google .dev domain early access
#247Alphabet has too much cash. They have a well established track record of enthusiastically backing exciting new projects way outside of their core competency just to dump them like hot garbage several years later. They also compete in random new industries each time this happens. It doesn't seem like a smart move to lease a domain from a politically active mega-monopoly that might decide to randomly become your compet…
You made a fully general argument against anything that Google touches.
This isn't useful, because everyone knows that argument already. I'd rather know what Google's track record is specifically having to do with DNS (or fundamental Internet infrastructure).
Re: Google .dev domain early access
#248Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are icann rules for launching a tld. There is a period for tm holders. Most companies are going to get their company.dev during the tm period. If they don’t, three is always the udrp process.
So big companies with big money won't have to shell out cash because there's a TM period for them but smaller one got to buck out 10,000 bucks to prevent cyber squatting ?
Welcome to the Domain Name System?
Re: Google .dev domain early access
#249Earlier quoted context omitted.
Somebody makes this post on every HN thread involving Google now. But the three big public deprecations I'm aware of are Reader, Inbox, and G+. All consumer products. All the other stuff on that killed by Google site is stuff I've barely even heard of, and all consumer products. To my knowledge, no major GCP component has ever been deprecated. Am I missing something? This seems like it has just become a groupthink HN…
I heard that old google cloud offering price was increased 10-fold on short notice. Not the same, but close
Thats made up, but ok.
Re: Google .dev domain early access
#250Earlier quoted context omitted.
You may get a kick out of this... Google Support 12:53 PM Thank you for contacting Google Domains. My name is and I'll be happy to assist you. Let me quickly read your notes here. 12:54 PM Hi there 12:54 PM How are you? 12:54 PM Hi. I'm trying to read your website but it's broken in one of the dominant web browsers in the world. 12:54 PM Hi you said that the link https://domains.google/tld/dev/ doesn't work on Safari…
> Hi. I'm trying to read your website but it's broken in one of the dominant web browsers in the world. Don't we all hate reports like this one. "Yeah I know what information you need but my high horse told me to write this crap instead."
> 12:54 PM Hi you said that the link https://domains.google/tld/dev/ doesn't work on Safari?
Where exactly do you think that came from? Kindly note the words "you said".
It's almost as if there was a "please tell us what you're asking about" field that you fill in before being connected to a chat agent or something.