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.INTERNAL is now reserved for private-use applications

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563 points joncfoo | 4 comments | 09 Aug 24 16:36 UTC | HN request time: 0.878s | source
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huijzer ◴[09 Aug 24 20:42 UTC] No.41205251[source]▶
1. Buy .intern TLD

2. Sell to scammers.

3. Profit.

(I want to appreciate how hard it probably is for ICANN to figure out proper TLDs.)

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gjsman-1000 ◴[09 Aug 24 20:55 UTC] No.41205344[source]▶
Um... no? .intern is not a valid TLD; you can't get any domains with it, nobody has proposed that TLD, and if someone did that issue would be discovered then.
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jeroenhd ◴[09 Aug 24 21:03 UTC] No.41205385[source]▶
If you've got a couple hundred grant laying about, you could probably set up a shell company and acquire .intern through a several-year ccTLD acquisition process.

I'd like to think people learned from .dev and such. I doubt any scammer will be able to use it.

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1. LordKeren ◴[09 Aug 24 21:08 UTC] No.41205413[source]▶
Sorry, what happened with .dev?

EDIT: just saw your comment about Google here

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41205394

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2. n_plus_1_acc ◴[09 Aug 24 21:11 UTC] No.41205433[source]▶
People were using .dev for internal things and acted surprised when Google decided to use it on the internet.
3. jeroenhd ◴[09 Aug 24 21:13 UTC] No.41205442[source]▶
To expand on my comment: Google bought .dev and started selling domains. In truth, developers probably only noticed because Google pre-loaded their .dev TLD into HSTS, which meant that any domain ending in .dev, even if it's a local one or one you own, must communicate over HTTPS if you want a browser to interact with it.

As a result, even if you bought steves-laptop.dev for yourself, you still wouldn't be able to run an HTTP dev environment on it, you'd need to set up HTTPS. I think that was probably a good move by Google, because otherwise it could've taken weeks for most devs to notice.

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