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.dev Was HTTPS-Locked Two Years Before You Could Register It — HSTS, Localhost Collisions, and the Engineer URL
~642k active names, Charleston Road Registry on Nomulus, Chromium HSTS preload since September 2017 (before GA February 2019), the local-*.dev breakage story, verified roofs from web.dev to github.dev—and why the old guide's AIO boilerplate and "created for developers" tagline failed audit.
.io Rents Silicon Valley From a Sovereignty Dispute: Chagos, Identity Digital, and the Sunset Clock
1.72M names, ~$42M/year registry revenue, the May 2025 Chagos treaty shelved in 2026 after US opposition, ISO/ICANN five-year sunset mechanics—and why the old guide's "no UDRP" line and formulaic startup checklist failed audit.
.sh: Four Thousand Islanders, Three Thousand DNS Names—and a Shell Extension the World Borrowed
~3K delegated names (not 11K brochure), ICB/Identity Digital registry stack, Google does NOT treat .sh as a gccTLD, $30–70 shelf renewals, verified roofs from brew.sh to nah.sh—and why the old guide's generic-ccTLD line, Railway.sh/Warp.sh/curl.sh brochure, and formulaic shell-script checklist failed audit.