The story part

I had been thinking about registering a domain for a custom email address. I was looking for an easy to remember name that would look professionnal without necessarily going for a common TLD such as .com. .ca, etc. Having a Google account and knowing they offer a registrar service, I had a look. That’s how I came across the .dev TLD.

Marketing dept’s doing its job well so I clicked that attractive button. If you want to serve a website through this domain, you’ll need an SSL certificate. No worries there, plus it’s a cool name, it’s affordable and it will require that I setup HTTPS when I’m ready for a website (and also requires visitors to use a secure protocol).