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posted by martyb on Wednesday February 20 2019, @02:49AM   Printer-friendly
from the under-.development dept.

You can now register .dev domains

Google today announced that you can now register .dev domain names. Google acquired the .dev top-level domain when ICANN opened up the web to new generic top-level domains (gTLD) a few years ago. At the time, Google acquired gTLD's like .app, .page and .dev (for some reason, Google also owns .soy).

Right now, the .dev domains are still in an early access program, though. That means you'll have to pay an additional fee that decreases every day until February 28 — and that early access fee is pretty steep.

Registering a new domain on GoDaddy, which is one of the many resellers that offer the new domain names, will set you back over $12,500 in extra fees today. Tomorrow, that price drops to just over $3,100. Come February 28, you can register any available domain and it'll just cost you about $20 per year. The idea here, of course, is to manage demand (and to extract a few extra dollars from the companies that really need to have a given domain name).

bluecheckmark.dev

Also at Android Police, 9to5Google, and BetaNews.


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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by coolgopher on Wednesday February 20 2019, @03:05AM (9 children)

    by coolgopher (1157) on Wednesday February 20 2019, @03:05AM (#803832)

    .pass

    • (Score: 1) by RandomFactor on Wednesday February 20 2019, @03:27AM (4 children)

      by RandomFactor (3682) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday February 20 2019, @03:27AM (#803843) Journal

      Poking around.... .SOY is a thing. Hmm, i wonder

      news.soy
      Your domain is available!
      Premium name. What is this?
      749.00 USD Renewal 749.00 USD

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      • (Score: 3, Funny) by coolgopher on Wednesday February 20 2019, @03:34AM

        by coolgopher (1157) on Wednesday February 20 2019, @03:34AM (#803845)

        I refer you to my first comment! :)

      • (Score: 3, Funny) by takyon on Wednesday February 20 2019, @04:44AM

        by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Wednesday February 20 2019, @04:44AM (#803866) Journal

        https://icannwiki.org/.soy [icannwiki.org]

        "The proposed gTLD will provide the marketplace with direct association to the term, ʺsoy,ʺ which is the Spanish equivalent to the English ʺam.ʺ Merriam-Webster defines ʺamʺ as the ʺpresent of be.ʺ The proposed gTLD will enhance consumer choice by expanding second-level domain namespace and offering such namespace without any association, providing registrants with flexibility and opportunities for differentiation.

        sam.soy

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 20 2019, @01:01PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 20 2019, @01:01PM (#803959)

        very.soy [independent.co.uk] is available.

      • (Score: 3, Funny) by kazzie on Wednesday February 20 2019, @08:53PM

        by kazzie (5309) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday February 20 2019, @08:53PM (#804209)

        Maybe Google grabbed the .soy TLD so they could put it for hire, and gather media attention for doing so.

        Or, in other words, .soy lent news.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 20 2019, @10:56AM (3 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 20 2019, @10:56AM (#803945)

      .devil

      • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday February 20 2019, @03:12PM (2 children)

        by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday February 20 2019, @03:12PM (#803988) Journal

        .dev.il.us

        Grepping /usr/dict/words doesn't find any words that end in dev. Drat!

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        • (Score: 2) by krishnoid on Wednesday February 20 2019, @09:54PM (1 child)

          by krishnoid (1156) on Wednesday February 20 2019, @09:54PM (#804239)

          You should try looking in the lists of Indian names [babynamespedia.com]. Tell your friends!

          • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday February 20 2019, @10:52PM

            by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday February 20 2019, @10:52PM (#804263) Journal

            Interesting. Looking at your link, I see Jagadev, which means "king of the world".

            Or on this site [babynames.net] I see the name Donald which means "ruler of the world".

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 20 2019, @05:04AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 20 2019, @05:04AM (#803870)

    In Soviet Russia, Medve.dev .devs you!

    • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday February 20 2019, @09:14AM (1 child)

      by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Wednesday February 20 2019, @09:14AM (#803927) Homepage
      To those with even a little Irish in them, "Dev" conjours up much closer-to-home boogiemen. (And to those without - at least watch /Michael Collins/ before you die.)
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      • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday February 20 2019, @03:14PM

        by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday February 20 2019, @03:14PM (#803989) Journal

        > much closer-to-home boogiemen

        system.d.dev

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  • (Score: 2) by ledow on Wednesday February 20 2019, @10:02AM (2 children)

    by ledow (5567) on Wednesday February 20 2019, @10:02AM (#803937) Homepage

    Ah, non-standard TLDs

    The vanity-plates of the Internet.

    Get your vanity here! Only $12,500! Or you could just stick with the website you've had forever and told all your customers to use already!

    Honestly don't understand it. If I want to go to google, I really don't care if it's .com, .co.uk, .search or anything else. They can all work out where I'm from and adjust accordingly. Same for Microsoft, Facebook, or whatever else.

    As it is, if you're a trademark holder, anyone trying to steal your trademarked domain can be sued into oblivion if they try to use it to pass-off anyway, and most of the time you'll be given that domain name as part of the settlement.

    Buy one. Stick with it. Utilise your subdomains. I'm much more likely to be trusting of "dev.microsoft.com" than I would be of "microsoft.dev", for instance.

    • (Score: 5, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 20 2019, @11:47AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 20 2019, @11:47AM (#803950)

      you lost me at "trust microsoft".

      • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday February 20 2019, @10:53PM

        by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday February 20 2019, @10:53PM (#804265) Journal

        The Microsoft
        Is Your Friend
        Trust The Microsoft

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