[efdee]

Many people were using the .dev tld as some sort of local tld.

[beefhash]

And I guess it was probably cheaper for Google to just buy the TLD and not fix their internal processes?

[untog]

Well I think buying it was also to the benefit of everyone else using .dev locally. But oh well.

[efdee]

Not really. Suddenly, .dev is a real TLD instead of a fictional one we use for local hostnames.