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I have a theory that ICANN did this too tell developers to use designated domains for internal uses.
by sattoshi 9y ago
I have a theory that ICANN did this too tell developers to use designated domains for internal uses.
- ocdtrekkie 9y agoI think you're putting too much thought into it. It's very simple: .dev is a massively easy to monetize TLD, it was guaranteed to get multiple companies trying to buy it, and when they had multiple offers, they got auctioned. I think .dev was just too much money for ICANN to say no. Of course, it looks like ICANN may have gotten screwed, because Amazon and Google appear to have privately arranged to figure out who was going for which TLDs: https://icannwiki.org/.dev https://icannwiki.org/.dev