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Registration Opens for .dev Domain Names

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

takyon writes:

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

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> 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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