On Thu, 25 Feb 2016, Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2016-02-24, Kamil Cholewiński <[email protected]> wrote: >> This. See how Google bought '.dev'. >> >> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2606 > > </me wonders if they use this so much internally that it > was cheaper to buy the TLD to prevent anyone else from grabbing > it, rather than change it>
Definitely. At Google's scale, probably any trivial decision like that instantly saves them money or improves some process.
