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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: 0s | source
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dawnerd ◴[09 Aug 24 23:04 UTC] No.41206087[source]▶
I'm still peeved they let google take over .dev when they knew tons of us used that in the older days for dev environments.
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TheRealPomax ◴[09 Aug 24 23:06 UTC] No.41206099[source]▶
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.
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1. nine_k ◴[09 Aug 24 23:38 UTC] No.41206296[source]▶
A convenient TLD is short, not excruciatingly loquacious. In ease of typing .dev certainly wins over .development.
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2. Jerrrrrrry ◴[10 Aug 24 02:36 UTC] No.41206901[source]▶
It'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.

3. slaymaker1907 ◴[10 Aug 24 09:14 UTC] No.41208287[source]▶
Luckily, we have *.test. I’ve used that one quite a bit.
4. TheRealPomax ◴[10 Aug 24 16:19 UTC] No.41210502[source]▶
Yes, 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.