Google, Our Patron Saint of the Closed Web
07 Apr 2015 • sealedabstract.comLet’s talk about a domain that’s near and dear to my heart, .dev. Wouldn’t it be great to have a domain for content targeted at software developers? So that you could actually get a domain name for www.[your-side-project].dev? Instead abusing the .io domain which is officially for the British Indian Ocean Territory.
Alas, Google does not think much of that plan. Under their shell company “Charleston Road Registry Inc.” (whose “CEO” is merely Google’s in-house counsel), they have applied for control of the .dev domain, which they intend to be:
completely closed for the sole use of Google.
Yikes. Glad someone is paying attention here. Makes me feel I made the right choice when I abanded most Google products years ago.