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Re:Top-level domain name registry service on Google App Engi... by astrodust on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @12:59PM (#17084058)
Pretty sure scooping .dev violates their "Do No Evil" mandate, especially when after breaking Puma, Pow and a host of other tools, plus forcing HSTS on it in Chrome, they don't even offer it for sale.
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Re:Top-level domain name registry service on Google App Engi... by notatoad on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @01:04PM (#17084107)
That's a pretty low bar for "evil"
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Re:Top-level domain name registry service on Google App Engi... by astrodust on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @01:10PM (#17084184)
I suppose they could get the .evil domain, that might lower the bar a bit more.
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Re:Top-level domain name registry service on Google App Engi... by dictum on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @01:12PM (#17084208)
As with .dev, they'll acquire .evil, thus ensuring no one (else?) can do .evil.
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Re:Top-level domain name registry service on Google App Engi... by CydeWeys on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @03:03PM (#17085412)
Stay tuned.

It's not trivial to launch a new gTLD. No evil involved, just work.

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Re:Top-level domain name registry service on Google App Engi... by Jaruzel on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @01:00PM (#17084066)
Google abandoned that mandate years ago.
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Re:Top-level domain name registry service on Google App Engi... by lern_too_spel on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @07:42PM (#17087361)
How can it abandon a mandate that never existed? It's "Don't be evil," which has an entirely different meaning. Due to opportunity cost, everything you do can be considered at least a little bit evil, so "Do no evil" is not even possible.
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Re:Top-level domain name registry service on Google App Engi... by astrodust on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @01:11PM (#17084186)
It's true, the Schmidt Doctrine pretty much threw that out the window.
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