Google today announced that you can now register .dev domain names. Google acquired the .dev top-level domain when ICANN opened up the web to new generic top-level domains [gTLD] a few years ago. At the time, Google acquired gTLD’s like .app, .page and .dev [for some reason, Google also owns .soy].

Right now, the .dev domains are still in an early access program, though. That means you’ll have to pay an additional fee that decreases every day until February 28 — and that early access fee is pretty steep.

Registering a new domain on GoDaddy, which is one of the that offer the new domain names, will set you back over $12,500 in extra fees today. Tomorrow, that price drops to just over $3,100. Come February 28, you can register any available domain and it’ll just cost you about $20 per year. The idea here, of course, is to manage demand [and to extract a few extra dollars from the companies that really need to have a given domain name].

Some of the companies and organizations that are already using the new gTLD are Google itself, as well as the likes of GitHub. Women Who Code, JetBrains, Codecademy and Salesforce. And because this is 2019, there’s also Kubernetes.dev.

Like its .app domains, .dev domains will require HTTPS connections to protect users from ad malware, tracking injections and Wi-Fi snooping.

“We hope .dev will be a new home for you to build your communities, learn the latest tech and showcase your projects—all with a perfect domain name,” Google explains in today’s announcement.

I never got the sense that there was all that much demand for non-.com or country-level domain names [does the world really need .ninja domains?], but if you always wanted a .dev domain, now would be a good time to get out your credit card.

Recently, Google has made an announcement about a brand new TLD- Top Level Domain. This domain is especially for web developers to help them build communities, learn latest technologies and showcase their projects with this new domain name.

As a part of early access programme, .dev domains are available to register till February 28th, where you will be able to secure your preferred domain at an additional price. Post the date, these .dev domains can be registered at a regular price through your choice of registrar -as declared in a blog-post by Ben Fried Vice President, Chief Information Officer [CIO] and Chief Domains Enthusiast at Google.

Along with small and large companies like Mozilla, GitHub, Netflix, Stripe and Glitch, the tech giant itself has started using this new TLD for some of its ventures like opensource.dev and web.dev

The .dev domains are safeguarded against open wi-fi threats, ad malware and tracking injection by Internet service providers same as Google’s recent launches of .app and .page domains.

An HTTPS- Hyper Text Transfer Protocol will be required to connect each and every .dev websites, thus, making it secure by default. Their aim is to move HTTPS all around the web with the .dev website that launches.

An HTTP is a protocol used to transfer data between a website and the browser, while HTTPS is a more secure version of HTTP.

Last week we announced the new .dev top-level domain [TLD] was open for Early Access registrations. As of today, .dev is available to anyone through your of choice [typically $12-$15 for standard priced domains, varies by registrar].

We envision .dev as a home for developers. From tools to programming languages to blogs, .dev is the best place for all the amazing things that you build. Over the past few months, we've launched, or re-launched, many of our own developer sites on the new domain. Here are some of our favorites:

• Learn how to build a better web at web.dev.
• Start your open source journey with the right license. Did you know that without the right license, software isn't really open source? Opensource.dev explains why.
• Learn how to build beautiful native apps on iOS and Android from a single codebase. Visit flutter.dev to learn more.
• Join the TensorFlow community at tfhub.dev.
• Analyze and tune your software with performance tracing for Android, Linux, and Chrome. Check out perfetto.dev.
• Explore Google's open source JavaScript and WebAssembly engine at v8.dev
• Get your hands on Puppeteer, a Node library that provides a high-level API to control Chrome or Chromium over the DevTools Protocol. Get it at pptr.dev.

But we're not done yet! We've got big plans for .dev, and we'd like to invite you to join us. To start, everyone who applied for a ticket to Google I/O 2019 will get a .dev domain at no cost for one year. If you entered the drawing, check your inbox for your redemption code. We'll be moving more of our existing projects and launching some exciting things on .dev in the months to come. We can't wait to see what you build on .dev -- share what you create with

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