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I recommend .dev. It’s owned by Google and a high quality domain extension (I did a lot of research before settling on it, although now I have a vested interest
by abhinav22 6y ago
I recommend .dev. It’s owned by Google and a high quality domain extension (I did a lot of research before settling on it, although now I have a vested interest in its success :D).
For Google the bad PR would outweigh any benefits, so I think it’s the safest option.
However if you just want a name, .com is the best if you don’t care about a not so great name.
- _huayra_ 6y agoI was about 2 months late to someone snatching up {my last name}.dev :( I do recommend .dev for developers if they can get a good one for their personal use / site, for the reasons you mention.
- abhinav22 6y agoI’m sorry to hear :( Go to Google domains, there’s an option to see all available domain endings with your chosen name, you can see if there is another that works better for you? Eg .xyz or.app etc
- renke1 6y agoI was able to get $firstname.{dev,app}. My idea was to deploy my apps at $app.$firstname.{dev,app} for dev and prod stages respectively. Now I only need apps that I can deploy there. I am still a bit reluctant to use either one as my primary email address (still relying on .org) because I worry that certain sites will reject those fancy email addresses. I should say that I am more attached to my first name than my last name because the former is slightly more special and thus more "unique" (also it sounds cute when people say it in English).
- gary-kim 6y agoI'm using a .dev domain name as my primary email address and in the last few years of using it, I have only run into one website that did not support it properly. I ended up using my .com email alias for that website.
- wdb 6y agoI went for firstname.dev :)
- CydeWeys 6y agoNo, I went for https://firstname.dev https://firstname.dev I also got https://lastname.dev https://lastname.dev too. And lest you think you could just use your https://fullname.dev https://fullname.dev ... nope, already got it as well.
- stevekemp 6y agoYou're missing "steve.dev" on the first list - not me, though I have two steve-domains! Reminds me of how I thought I was being clever by picking the facebook "shortname" of /forename.surename!
- CydeWeys 6y agoLesser known fact about .dev: The registry software that runs it (and Google's other TLDs) is free and open source, and is developed in the open on GitHub: https://nomulus.foo https://nomulus.foo So if you really have thorny questions that need answering about how exactly certain complicated parts of the domain lifecycle work, you can just dive into the source.
- abhinav22 6y agoThanks! That’s a very interesting fact.