THELOGICALINDIAN - Bitcoindev is no best accessible on the Google dev area anthology This account comes amidst the accessible rollout of the dev toplevel area TLD
$12,500 for Bitcoin.dev
If you were eyeing buying of bitcoin.dev while cat-and-mouse for Google to absolution the new TLD officially, that adventitious is continued gone. A redditor with the name “salsa-system” posted a brace of hours ago that Google has registered both the bitcoin.dev and blockchain.dev domains on Tuesday (February 19, 2019).
This account agency that addition splashed $12,500 to lock bottomward the .dev area for the top-ranked cryptocurrency. That’s $25,000 in absolute if the aforementioned article additionally acquired blockchain.dev.
As at columnist time, a quick analysis on the registry shows that ethereum.dev is bare but addresses like satoshi.dev and btc.dev haven’t been claimed yet. Like in added business segments, prime area names are additionally awful approved afterwards in the cryptocurrency ecosystem.
.dev TLD Now Available
The account comes as Google, the owners of the .dev area announced the accessible absolution of the new TLD in a blog column appear on Tuesday. According to the statement, individuals and companies akin can advance the aboriginal admission affairs to access their adopted .dev area names.
An extract from the advertisement reads:
Entities who chose to annals their domains names on the day of the barrage paid $12,500 in absolute fees. Those electing to do so today, Wednesday (January 20, 2024) will pay $3,500. By the end of February, accepting a .dev area will amount $20.
Making .dev Public Again
Currently, platforms and organizations like GitHub, Salesforce, and JetBrains are already application the new TLD. According to Google, the .dev area is for developers and coders.
This acceptance by the aggregation ability in some way be an attack to allay developers. In 2015, Google’s acquisition of the .dev TLD acquired an uproar from stakeholders in the industry.
At the time, developers acclimated the area for their centralized website testing protocols. This bearings became alike added affronted back a brace of years later, the aggregation took the area private, causing analysis webpages to stop working.
In any case, it seems like Google is starting to dip its toes into Bitcoin. Just yesterday, Bitcoinist reported that Google has alien the Bitcoin attribute (₿) into its iOS keyboard.
Who do you anticipate paid $22,000 to lock bottomward bitcoin.dev and blockchain.dev area names? Let us apperceive your thoughts in the comments below.
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