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I was curious about this as well. It seems like arbitrary short names were “premium” without any value in their meaning.


Well, .dev domain has HSTS enabled to all subdomains. And there won't be even a hit to port 80 - it goes straight HTTPS by browser because of preload list. So you can't have non-HTTPS site on .dev domain visited by a browser. Thats some value.


You can serve anti-HSTS headers if you really want to serve HTTP, but you'll need to serve HTTPS for the initial page loads.


I was able to pick up https://badday.mov/ for regular price. :D




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