trying to equate arbitrary strings with web browser interoperability is confusing at best and malicious at worst. one of these issues is important, the other i

trying to equate arbitrary strings with web browser interoperability is confusing at best and malicious at worst. one of these issues is important, the other is not. .dev is three arbitrary letters. sure, i'd like a .dev domain too, but that's purely vanity. if google wants to spend millions buying up vanity domains, good for them, it doesn't really hurt anybody, and certainly has nothing to do with the open web. look how important potentially cool domains like .biz and .info turned out to be. domains are purely fashion. .io is popular right now for no reason other than fashion, if .dev gets locked up by google for their internal use, then it will never become fashionable and nothing of value has been lost. When the world needs more domain names, a new gTLD will come into fashion.