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Re: Google .dev domain early access

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Post by bhartzer »

Izmaki wrote: post #53
have_faith wrote: post #17

> A domain just for developers > $11,500 for 9 days early access Makes video games early access look like childs play.

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.

Re: Google .dev domain early access

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Post by tambourine_man »

dictum wrote: post #73
unilynx wrote: post #22

120KB of javascript and still the accordion doesn't open on OSX Safari.

I recently found out that the sidebar menus on pages within https://developers.google.com/web don't work with JS off (usually a trivial thing: show sub-items by default and hide them with JS). Almost every Alphabet website has something like that. So yes, minor anecdote, and I genuinely appreciate the hundreds of Google employees who really help the Web and share useful knowledge (and don't lead developers into using…

Not working with JS disabled is bad, but not working on a major modern browser is ridiculous.

Re: Google .dev domain early access

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Post by bhartzer »

aboutruby wrote: post #29

Pretty sure the first domains acquired will be targeted at local development setups, like tmp.dev, staging.dev, production.dev, etc. etc. edit: just a reminder that .local is the reserved one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.local

Most likely the domains like tmp.dev, staging.dev, and production.dev are premium domains that will never be released by the registry.

Many premium domains are held back by the registry, which are a part of icann rules. Those domains are typically not able to be registered and used by anyone.

Re: Google .dev domain early access

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Post by detritus »

gkoberger wrote: post #43
_wmd wrote: post #18

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 o…

I mean, I get your point, but I think this is a meme exclusive to HN. Other than Google Reader, there really isn't much Google has shut down without having a newer, better product you can transition to. When it comes to something like this (AKA not a consumer product, makes money, relatively easy to run, etc), I genuinely can't see them shutting down a TLD like this. If anything, the complaint should be the lack of o…

The 'Google Graveyard' meme is known far and wide beyond HN - I'm a long time member on a [n ostensibly] design-focused forum where it's been a long time running gag (of the acerbic kind) too.

Re: Google .dev domain early access

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Post by treis »

ebg13 wrote: post #70
gipp wrote: post #60

Earlier 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…

> But the three big public deprecations I'm aware of are Reader, Inbox, and G+. Google Code. Also Wave and half a dozen chat apps, but Code was a serious one that broke a lot of the developer web.

>Google Code. Also Wave and half a dozen chat apps, but Code was a serious one that broke a lot of the developer web.

What did it break?

Re: Google .dev domain early access

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Post by z3t4 »

_wmd wrote: post #18

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 o…

Domains will be useful for Google search ...

Re: Google .dev domain early access

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Post by bhartzer »

chomp wrote: post #71
_wmd wrote: post #18

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 o…

I don't think this is a huge concern - at least ICANN has the power to designate a successor registry, and I guarantee someone will break down the doors trying to get that particular gtld.

Yeah it will never happen. As long as you pay the registration fee you won’t lose your domain even if the registry goes bankrupt.

Re: Google .dev domain early access

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Post by thefounder »

gipp wrote: post #60
_wmd wrote: post #18

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 o…

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…

Every year google deprecates at least one "cloud" service/api. Not to mention the appengine pricing story.

Re: Google .dev domain early access

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Post by 4ad »

I reserved unix.dev for the regular domain reservation price, not the crazy "premium domain" price because unix.dev was not part of the premium domain list.

However, Google determined that no, unix.dev should be a premium domain, and "stole" the reservation from me (after I have already paid for it). They later added it to the premium domain list, and they asked me for $11k to keep the reservation.

TBH, I expected to lose the domain because of trademarks or whatever, but apparently it was simple highway robbery.

Btw, I didn't even get my money back, just "store credit".

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