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.
(Score: 4, Funny) by coolgopher on Wednesday February 20 2019, @03:05AM (9 children)
.pass
(Score: 1) by RandomFactor on Wednesday February 20 2019, @03:27AM (4 children)
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
В «Правде» нет известий, в «Известиях» нет правды
(Score: 3, Funny) by coolgopher on Wednesday February 20 2019, @03:34AM
I refer you to my first comment! :)
(Score: 3, Funny) by takyon on Wednesday February 20 2019, @04:44AM
https://icannwiki.org/.soy [icannwiki.org]
sam.soy
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 20 2019, @01:01PM
very.soy [independent.co.uk] is available.
(Score: 3, Funny) by kazzie on Wednesday February 20 2019, @08:53PM
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)
.devil
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday February 20 2019, @03:12PM (2 children)
.dev.il.us
Grepping /usr/dict/words doesn't find any words that end in dev. Drat!
People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Wednesday February 20 2019, @09:54PM (1 child)
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
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".
People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 20 2019, @05:04AM (2 children)
In Soviet Russia, Medve.dev .devs you!
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday February 20 2019, @09:14AM (1 child)
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday February 20 2019, @03:14PM
> 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)
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)
you lost me at "trust microsoft".
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday February 20 2019, @10:53PM
The Microsoft
Is Your Friend
Trust The Microsoft
People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.