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Go get your .dev domain!

David Ojeda on February 28, 2019

As of today, the Top Level Domain (TLD) .dev is available at a reasonable price. Go get yours! 🤓 Along with the coolness of having your business, ...
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ItsASine (Kayla)

I bought my last name .dev so I could make my resume/Linkedin email kayla@lastname.dev (I tried going for kayla.dev but someone bought it early in the EAP when the fee was $350... I'm not paying hundreds for a vanity URL)

Half tempted to get some other combos of my names/screennames, but for now I'm sticking with my fancy email :)

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MyKeg

Nice idea. Unfortunately my lastname is already taken.

But "lastname.dev" is available. As well as "mylastname.dev"

I wonder if someone was to register those, and just watch for misdirected emails, would that result in any? I can picture someone at a office somewhere, telling a colleague, just send me a mail at "Steve at my last name dot dev" and someone using that literally.

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Ben Sinclair

I have notareal.email and I see all sorts of emails people think go nowhere.

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ItsASine (Kayla)

I'm thinking .dev will be enough of a niche domain that it wouldn't happen that often, though I'd make use of a generic catch-all mailbox like anything not admin forward to admin@lastname.dev to make sure I'd get to see those emails :)

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David Ojeda

Nice one! Email looks great!

Yeah, also tried for david.dev, but got bought at an insane price.

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JoppeDC

Got mine as well the minute they became available. Protip, Porkbun.com is the cheapest registrar i could find for .dev, simply connecting it to a free cloudflare account costs me a total of $11,80 with great options thanks to cloudflare!

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David Ojeda

Great tip!

I wanted to go with Google Domains because it was cheaper for me and the process was cleaner/simpler, but you need an international credit card 😕

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Scott Tadman

The pricing on these seems all over the place, like the more "common" the term is the more you're going to pay.

The good news is that for uncommon terms they're actually inexpensive in relative terms.

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Betkowski

Went through the link, bought a .co.uk domain. I'm a domain addict. This needs to stop.

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rsclarke

This. Worse still, I keep renewing them thinking I'll use it one day...

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Betkowski

Hello, my name is Pav.
Hello Pav
I haven't bought a domain in 24 hours.
Applause

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Antonio Radovcic

Got niorad, a13c and lids.dev as alternative Domain for devlids.com, after some back and forth with Ionos 1&1. (had to order twice)

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Michael Jyms Gutierrez • Edited

That's awesome. I'll get my own once I spin up my vps 😁.