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For or against gTLDs Google should not be able to squat .dev is too generic to give to one company. Infact any one company squatting any gtld that isn't their r

For or against gTLDs Google should not be able to squat .dev is too generic to give to one company. Infact any one company squatting any gtld that isn't their registered trademark leaves a sour taste in my mouth. It's just a game of "we have money therefor shut up." combined with "The world revolves around the USA"

icebraining 12y ago
How is "squatting" .dev meaningfully different from having .dev.com? People here give way too much importance to TLDs.
- cies 12y ago
  I know a lot of folks using .dev for locally running "development" instances of websites/apps. Maybe .local is now a better choice.
  - icebraining 12y ago
    .local was already the standard: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.local http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.local
  - import 12y ago
    .local reserved for special mDNS functionality http://files.multicastdns.org/draft-cheshire-dnsext-multicastdns.txt http://files.multicastdns.org/draft-cheshire-dnsext-multicas...
  - cholmon 12y ago
    or .test http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.test http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.test
  - ChikkaChiChi 12y ago
    Microsoft documents even dictate using .local, but if you have mDNS on your network you immediately start to run into problems.
  - huxley 12y ago
    I used to use .foo, Google acquired that one last year: http://icannwiki.com/.foo http://icannwiki.com/.foo
  - hobarrera 12y ago
    .local is reserved for mDNS. I'm not sure why you can't just use the host's real FQDN.
    - jkrems 12y ago
      Because you might want to have multiple vhosts running on localhost, separated by hostname.
      - hobarrera 12y ago
        If you host is, say "zeus.barrera.io" you can use: test-service-1.zeus.barrera.io dummy-server.zeus.barrera.i Etc. No need to create new (possible conflicting, definitely not future proof) TLDs.
        jkrems 12y ago
        It's not about shared hosts (at least if I'm understanding the topic correctly) but about /etc/hosts entries on your local machine for your local machine. As in: my-test-thing-a.dev 127.0.0.1 my-test-thing-b.dev 127.0.0.1 my-test-thing-c.dev 127.0.0.1 Buying an actual registered domain for that sounds like it would be even more confusing than using an unregistered TLD because it makes it hard to tell which hostnames are expected to work across machines and which are strictly "works on my machine".
  - na85 12y ago
    I use .lan
sukilot 12y ago
Thought ICANN auctioned all the gTLDs. Also, The USA invented the Internet.
- andrewguenther 12y ago
  I hope you're joking about that second part....
  - testingonprod 12y ago
    He's right though. You may be too young.
    - andrewguenther 12y ago
      Except he's not right. ARPANET was one aspect of what would become the Internet. The public Internet as we know it is an amalgamation of technologies which were developed by the U.S., Great Britain, and France. You really can't claim that the U.S. invented the Internet.
- guillon 12y ago
  Hasnt' Louis Pouzin invented the Internet?

icebraining 12y ago

How is "squatting" .dev meaningfully different from having .dev.com? People here give way too much importance to TLDs.

cies 12y ago
I know a lot of folks using .dev for locally running "development" instances of websites/apps. Maybe .local is now a better choice.
- icebraining 12y ago
  .local was already the standard: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.local http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.local
- import 12y ago
  .local reserved for special mDNS functionality http://files.multicastdns.org/draft-cheshire-dnsext-multicastdns.txt http://files.multicastdns.org/draft-cheshire-dnsext-multicas...
- cholmon 12y ago
  or .test http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.test http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.test
- ChikkaChiChi 12y ago
  Microsoft documents even dictate using .local, but if you have mDNS on your network you immediately start to run into problems.
- huxley 12y ago
  I used to use .foo, Google acquired that one last year: http://icannwiki.com/.foo http://icannwiki.com/.foo
- hobarrera 12y ago
  .local is reserved for mDNS. I'm not sure why you can't just use the host's real FQDN.
  - jkrems 12y ago
    Because you might want to have multiple vhosts running on localhost, separated by hostname.
    - hobarrera 12y ago
      If you host is, say "zeus.barrera.io" you can use: test-service-1.zeus.barrera.io dummy-server.zeus.barrera.i Etc. No need to create new (possible conflicting, definitely not future proof) TLDs.
      - jkrems 12y ago
        It's not about shared hosts (at least if I'm understanding the topic correctly) but about /etc/hosts entries on your local machine for your local machine. As in: my-test-thing-a.dev 127.0.0.1 my-test-thing-b.dev 127.0.0.1 my-test-thing-c.dev 127.0.0.1 Buying an actual registered domain for that sounds like it would be even more confusing than using an unregistered TLD because it makes it hard to tell which hostnames are expected to work across machines and which are strictly "works on my machine".
- na85 12y ago
  I use .lan

sukilot 12y ago

Thought ICANN auctioned all the gTLDs. Also, The USA invented the Internet.

andrewguenther 12y ago
I hope you're joking about that second part....
- testingonprod 12y ago
  He's right though. You may be too young.
  - andrewguenther 12y ago
    Except he's not right. ARPANET was one aspect of what would become the Internet. The public Internet as we know it is an amalgamation of technologies which were developed by the U.S., Great Britain, and France. You really can't claim that the U.S. invented the Internet.
guillon 12y ago
Hasnt' Louis Pouzin invented the Internet?