To ensure that nobody else does. Google uses .dev pervasively for projects - if someone were to buy .dev and sell domains in it on the global DNS infrastructure, then myfancynewproject.dev would resolve to something entirely different from within Google than from outside it.
> To ensure that nobody else does. Google uses .dev pervasively for projects - if someone were to buy .dev and sell domains in it on the global DNS infrastructure, then myfancynewproject.dev would resolve to something entirely different from within Google than from outside it.
So basically Google decided to break everyone else, because they were afraid someone would break them. They should be more considerate of other developers who use .dev internally like them.
Well, sure. If everyone had just followed the RFCs and used “test”, this wouldn't have been a problem, since lots of people didn't, most of them were going to get broken at sometime (unless someone submitted and got approved an RFC to reserve “dev” like “test”.)
Once the gTLD landgrab was announced, it was too late to push the new RFC approach, and it was likely someone was going to get the gTLD.
Someone who was using it for internal use like Google is probably less disruptive to existing users (even with their HSTS action) than if it had been someone who wanted to sell it for public use, which would have produced real chaos.
>> They should be more considerate of other developers who use .dev internally like them.
> Why? What do they owe anyone?
Your attitude is the root cause of so many problems.
The have a moral obligation to not be jerks. If you're not aware, one of the things jerks are known for is acting selfishly with no concern for how their actions affect others.
Google shouldn't have been allowed to buy a gTLD like dev in the first place. But, since it has and Google only plans on using it internally, it should only use it in ways that don't break existing usages.
If that's true, wouldn't the right plan of action be for everybody to continue using dev as if it was a reserved TLD? Just pretend Google paid off ICANN to make it safe.
Edit: No real reply to the parent comment but on a slightly related/unrelated note: what I don't understand is why `maps/` and `shopping/` and any other google product when using Googles DNS goes to their servers, does this mean they plan on purchasing those gtlds?