For or against gTLDs Google should not be able to squat .dev is too generic to g...

icebraining · on April 1, 2015

How is "squatting" .dev meaningfully different from having .dev.com?

People here give way too much importance to TLDs.

cies · on April 1, 2015

I know a lot of folks using .dev for locally running "development" instances of websites/apps. Maybe .local is now a better choice.

icebraining · on April 1, 2015

.local was already the standard: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.local

import · on April 1, 2015

.local reserved for special mDNS functionality http://files.multicastdns.org/draft-cheshire-dnsext-multicas...

hobarrera · on April 1, 2015

.local is reserved for mDNS. I'm not sure why you can't just use the host's real FQDN.

jkrems · on April 1, 2015

Because you might want to have multiple vhosts running on localhost, separated by hostname.

hobarrera · on April 1, 2015

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 · on April 1, 2015

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".

cholmon · on April 1, 2015

or .test http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.test

huxley · on April 1, 2015

I used to use .foo, Google acquired that one last year:

http://icannwiki.com/.foo

ChikkaChiChi · on April 1, 2015

Microsoft documents even dictate using .local, but if you have mDNS on your network you immediately start to run into problems.

_ofdw · on April 1, 2015

I use .lan

sukilot · on April 1, 2015

Thought ICANN auctioned all the gTLDs.

Also, The USA invented the Internet.

andrewguenther · on April 1, 2015

I hope you're joking about that second part....

testingonprod · on April 1, 2015

He's right though. You may be too young.

andrewguenther · on April 1, 2015

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 · on April 2, 2015

Hasnt' Louis Pouzin invented the Internet?