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to be fair, ".dev" is not a full word, unlike INTERNAL or EXAMPLE. You're free to petition them to reserve .DEVELOPMENT, though, of course.
by TheRealPomax 2y ago
to be fair, ".dev" is not a full word, unlike INTERNAL or EXAMPLE. You're free to petition them to reserve .DEVELOPMENT, though, of course.
- nine_k 2y agoA convenient TLD is short, not excruciatingly loquacious. In ease of typing .dev certainly wins over .development.
- Jerrrrrrry 2y agoIt's not convenient if 99% of users (internet users) can't (effectively) use it. .dev is great; even if Google's motives were evil-truistic; and, *.development should be among the Reserved, Internet Use only. The abbreviated vs verbose TLD name is consistence. There aren't any folks more appreciable than consistency then the RFC goons.
- slaymaker1907 2y agoLuckily, we have *.test. I’ve used that one quite a bit.
- TheRealPomax 2y agoYes, but a convenient reserved TLD, formally declared never to be used by anyone and guaranteed to never resolve to anything by global DNS, is not accepted based on convenience alone. The ".dev" TLD is plenty useful as real domain. Plus, and this one's hard to believe, calling programming related work "dev" work is a surprisingly recent thing.
- cowsup 2y ago.com is not a full word either (company), or .org (organization), .net (internet), .gov (government), ...
- PartiallyTyped 2y agoI thought .com was for "commercial".
- dsr_ 2y ago.com is for .com. You can interpret it any way you'd like and it doesn't make a difference to anyone who isn't currently interested in the history of DNS. My preferred reading is .com for commonlymisinterpretedbypeoplewhodonotreadrfcsbutitdoesnotmatterintheslightest, which is a Welsh word meaning "oddly shaped sheep".
- 8organicbits 2y agoIsn't that proposed in RFC 920? > Commercial, any commercial related domains meeting the second level requirements. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc920#page-2 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc920#page-2
- TheRealPomax 2y ago.com is literally the opposite of a "reserved to never be used" word though?
- saghm 2y agoI'm not sure how that leads to the conclusion that other short, convenient TLDs like `.dev` should just be given to companies like Google to use very sparingly, if at all. EDIT: Looks like I misunderstood what Google having .dev meant in the above discussion; domains using it are available to purchase through their registrar (or more precisely resellers since I guess they don't sell directly anymore)