Internet Society told to halt .org sale by its own advisory council

Re:Internet Society told to halt .org sale by its own adviso... by echelon on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @10:58AM (#22366620)

"vanity" domains are $200/yr or more

Including "{firstname}.dev"

Nonsense.

If Google's worried about domain squatters, it controls the TLD rules and can come up with a less moneygrab strategy. Perhaps require a Github account and limit to one domain per customer?

FCFS is fairer than extortion.

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Re:Internet Society told to halt .org sale by its own adviso... by kick on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @03:02PM (#22369451)

require a GitHub account

You do know that there are devs that prefer other code hosting platforms, right? GitHub is a proprietary service that's generally terrible for developers.

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Re:Internet Society told to halt .org sale by its own adviso... by echelon on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @08:26PM (#22371971)

> GitHub is a proprietary service that's generally terrible for developers.

In what way? I find it incredibly awesome.

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Re:Internet Society told to halt .org sale by its own adviso... by Buttons840 on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @11:43AM (#22367196)

I paid $12 for my .dev domain. I bought it from Google.

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Re:Internet Society told to halt .org sale by its own adviso... by TheFiend7 on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @12:33PM (#22367769)

Domain names are not one time purchases? Secondly are you referring to monthly or yearly? They sometimes do flash deals which might be why you got it for one year at that price (assuming you paid that yearly). But the discounts usually don't last forever.

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Re:Internet Society told to halt .org sale by its own adviso... by zenexer on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @05:50PM (#22370956)

You’re probably thinking of premium domains. Most ngTLDs charge more for high-value names to mitigate squatting—and to take a larger piece of the pie.

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Re:Internet Society told to halt .org sale by its own adviso... by Buttons840 on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @12:51PM (#22368000)

It was for one year. I just checked and it is set for auto renewal in November and will cost another $12 for another year. It is a 6 letter domain.

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Re:Internet Society told to halt .org sale by its own adviso... by top_kekeroni_m8 on Thursday February 20, 2020 @06:53AM (#22374403)

Button.dev? ;)

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Re:Internet Society told to halt .org sale by its own adviso... by berdon on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @03:26PM (#22369682)

As other commenters have said, they're $12/yr.

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Re:Internet Society told to halt .org sale by its own adviso... by echelon on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @08:32PM (#22371993)

Not all of them.

https://support.google.com/domains/answer/6010092#registry

I just checked my Google Domains account, and my .dev domain renews for "$180 plus tax".

The pricing is entirely opaque and you can't find it listed anywhere, but I did find a comment from HN last year that listed several examples:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19201073

Some names cost even more than the $200 I initially cited!

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Re:Internet Society told to halt .org sale by its own adviso... by JohnFen on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @03:32PM (#22369743)

> require a Github account

That requirement would exclude most developers, including myself.

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Re:Internet Society told to halt .org sale by its own adviso... by techsupporter on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @11:57AM (#22367362)

Ah, how quickly the Internet forgets. .dev wasn’t going to be open for the rest of us originally; Google bought it as an internal name to keep private but relented a few years later.

> The web ad giant is keeping these domains "completely closed for the sole use of Google," as its paperwork filed[0] for .dev reads.

> Why not also share the wealth of .dev with developers? Well, in a word: branding. Google's successful application for .dev reads: "The proposed gTLD will provide Google with direct association to the term 'dev', which is an abbreviation of the word 'development'. The mission of this gTLD, .dev, is to provide a dedicated domain space in which Google can enact second-level domains specific to its projects in development."

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/03/13/google_developer_gt...

0 - https://gtldresult.icann.org/applicationstatus/applicationde...

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Re:Internet Society told to halt .org sale by its own adviso... by ivalm on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @12:57PM (#22368086)

Sure, but google shouldn't be able to get a generic gTLD like this. Why is google's interest in owning "dev" more valuable than everyone else's?

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Re:Internet Society told to halt .org sale by its own adviso... by techsupporter on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @01:59PM (#22368792)

Agreed; that's what GP was getting at and people were refuting the claim with "but I have registered a .dev domain." For three-ish years, Google was hoarding it and the Internet pushed back and Google relented for some unknown reason (I hope due to the pushback but I'm not counting on it).

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Re:Internet Society told to halt .org sale by its own adviso... by aaronchall on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @10:41AM (#22366432)

Ditto.

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