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Many people were using the .dev tld as some sort of local tld.

• beefhash 7y ago
  And I guess it was probably cheaper for Google to just buy the TLD and not fix their internal processes?
  • untog 7y ago
    Well I think buying it was also to the benefit of everyone else using .dev locally. But oh well.
    • efdee 7y ago
      Not really. Suddenly, .dev is a real TLD instead of a fictional one we use for local hostnames.