oh. its worse. the original request for the TLD was only granted because in the application Google specifically mentioned that it should be reserved due to its unofficial use by developers and that if anyone else got it then they might put real domains on it.

You cant make it up.

>Sell your domain business and force your customers to migrate.

I specifically use some .dev domains because of HSTS. Some of us don't cling to http and I prefer an error rather than transparent fallback to unsafe protocol if I screw up the config.

The first point is valid but that is mostly ICANN's fault, they should have proposed it as reserved instead of selling it.

> informal standard

FAFO, as they say.