[dawnerd]

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.

[undersuit]

I used .coffee on my home network until it became a for-profit TLD. https://icannwiki.org/.coffee

[spartanatreyu]

I changed all my .dev donains to .localdev

[TheRealPomax]

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.

[nine_k]

A convenient TLD is short, not excruciatingly loquacious. In ease of typing .dev certainly wins over .development.

[TheRealPomax]

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.

[Jerrrrrrry]

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.

[slaymaker1907]

Luckily, we have *.test. I’ve used that one quite a bit.

[cowsup]

.com is not a full word either (company), or .org (organization), .net (internet), .gov (government), ...

[PartiallyTyped]

I thought .com was for "commercial".

[dsr_]

.com is for .com. You can interpret it any way you'd like and it doesn't make a difference to anyone who isn't currently interested in the history of DNS.

My preferred reading is .com for commonlymisinterpretedbypeoplewhodonotreadrfcsbutitdoesnotmatterintheslightest, which is a Welsh word meaning "oddly shaped sheep".

[8organicbits]

Isn't that proposed in RFC 920?

> Commercial, any commercial related domains meeting the second level requirements.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc920#page-2

[TheRealPomax]

.com is literally the opposite of a "reserved to never be used" word though?

[saghm]

I'm not sure how that leads to the conclusion that other short, convenient TLDs like `.dev` should just be given to companies like Google to use very sparingly, if at all.

EDIT: Looks like I misunderstood what Google having .dev meant in the above discussion; domains using it are available to purchase through their registrar (or more precisely resellers since I guess they don't sell directly anymore)