Comment on Which non-US domain registrar to use?

lnxtx@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• pathief@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Is .dev maintained by the US?

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  • streamer272@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It is, I just checked, by a subsidiary of google

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    • pathief@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s unfortunate :(

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  • lnxtx@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You can easily check it by WHOIS:

    $ whois dev.
    % IANA WHOIS server
    % for more information on IANA, visit http://www.iana.org/
    % This query returned 1 object
    
    domain:       DEV
    
    organisation: Charleston Road Registry Inc.
    address:      1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
    address:      Mountain View CA 94043
    address:      United States of America (the)
    
    # the rest of output omitted
    

    And some hints give Wikipedia: List of Internet top-level domains.

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