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Probably some developer misusing the .dev domain for their own personal test projects, yet again.

by devass 4y ago

HWR_14 4y ago
You mean "some dev deciding to keep using the .dev for personal test projects, as was the standard before ICANN and Google took a standard community resource and privatized it, yet again"
- chrisseaton 4y ago
  > as was the standard Which standard was that? I thought only example.com was special-cased?
  - HWR_14 4y ago
    Before ICANN started auctioning off TLDs it was common practice to use .dev and .test (probably others that escape me). It wasn't formalized, but that doesn't really matter. It was well known and commonly done. In fact, it couldn't have been formalized, because the TLDs were limited and by definition any non standard TLD was for internal use only. It would make no sense to have a defined standard for an impossible situation.
    - detaro 4y ago
      > In fact, it couldn't have been formalized, because the TLDs were limited and by definition any non standard TLD was for internal use only. No, there never was any guarantee that the existing TLDs were all that would exist ever, so non-standard TLDs were just that: non-standard, undefined what happens to them. And you even provided a counter-example: .test is explicitly reserved by an internet standard to never be in public DNS and thus safe to use for testing purposes.
    - chrismorgan 4y ago
      Using .dev was always contrary to spec. Dunno how common it actually was—I personally never encountered it. Clearly ICANN decided it wasn’t such a hazard as .home and .corp, which are both indefinitely delayed (https://icannwiki.org/Name_Collision https://icannwiki.org/Name_Collision) due to their popularity (despite being contrary to spec). You should instead have used something like .localhost (reserved in RFC 2606) if it’s on your local machine, or .test (reserved in RFC 2606) in a local network, or some domain that you control (even if it’s not publicly routable).
  - my69thaccount 4y ago
    https://github.com/basecamp/pow https://github.com/basecamp/pow Pow used .dev and .test in the 2000s-2010s
    - chrisseaton 4y ago
      That’s not a standard that’s just someone using them.
      - my69thaccount 4y ago

Probably some developer misusing the .dev domain for their own personal test projects, yet again.

by devass 4y ago

Probably some developer misusing the .dev domain for their own personal test projects, yet again.

You mean "some dev deciding to keep using the .dev for personal test projects, as was the standard before ICANN and Google took a standard community resource and privatized it, yet again"

chrisseaton 4y ago
> as was the standard Which standard was that? I thought only example.com was special-cased?
- HWR_14 4y ago
  Before ICANN started auctioning off TLDs it was common practice to use .dev and .test (probably others that escape me). It wasn't formalized, but that doesn't really matter. It was well known and commonly done. In fact, it couldn't have been formalized, because the TLDs were limited and by definition any non standard TLD was for internal use only. It would make no sense to have a defined standard for an impossible situation.
  - detaro 4y ago
    > In fact, it couldn't have been formalized, because the TLDs were limited and by definition any non standard TLD was for internal use only. No, there never was any guarantee that the existing TLDs were all that would exist ever, so non-standard TLDs were just that: non-standard, undefined what happens to them. And you even provided a counter-example: .test is explicitly reserved by an internet standard to never be in public DNS and thus safe to use for testing purposes.
  - chrismorgan 4y ago
    Using .dev was always contrary to spec. Dunno how common it actually was—I personally never encountered it. Clearly ICANN decided it wasn’t such a hazard as .home and .corp, which are both indefinitely delayed (https://icannwiki.org/Name_Collision https://icannwiki.org/Name_Collision) due to their popularity (despite being contrary to spec). You should instead have used something like .localhost (reserved in RFC 2606) if it’s on your local machine, or .test (reserved in RFC 2606) in a local network, or some domain that you control (even if it’s not publicly routable).
- my69thaccount 4y ago
  https://github.com/basecamp/pow https://github.com/basecamp/pow Pow used .dev and .test in the 2000s-2010s
  - chrisseaton 4y ago
    That’s not a standard that’s just someone using them.
    - my69thaccount 4y ago