.dev is a
top-level domain
A top-level domain (TLD) is one of the domain name, domains at the highest level in the hierarchical Domain Name System of the Internet after the root domain. The top-level domain names are installed in the DNS root zone, root zone of the nam ...
name operated by
Google Registry
Charleston Road Registry Inc. (CRR), doing business as Google Registry, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Google LLC. It is the domain name registry that Google uses to handle its top-level domains (TLDs).
History
The company was founded on F ...
. It was proposed in
ICANN
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN ) is a global multistakeholder group and nonprofit organization headquartered in the United States responsible for coordinating the maintenance and procedures of several dat ...
's
new generic top-level domain (gTLD) program, and became available to the general public on March 1, 2019, with an early access period that began on February 19.
Security
The .dev top-level domain is incorporated on the
HSTS preload list, requiring HTTPS on all .dev domains without individual HSTS enlistment.
History
Web developer
A web developer is a programmer who develops World Wide Web applications using a client–server model. The applications typically use HTML, CSS, and JavaScript in the client, and any general-purpose programming language in the server. is used ...
s have been using .dev top-level domains within their internal networks for testing purposes for a long time. However, after Google acquired the TLD, such environments have stopped functioning on some modern web browsers.
See also
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List of Internet top-level domains
This list of Internet top-level domains (TLD) contains top-level domains, which are those domains in the DNS root zone of the Domain Name System of the Internet. A list of the top-level domains by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) ...
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Google Domains
References
External links
.dev – ICANNWiki
Generic top-level domains
Google top-level domains
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