--- title: is-a.dev: A Free .dev Subdomain for Your Projects description: is-a.dev offers a free service that provides subdomains under the .dev top-level domain for developers and their projects. It's suitable for personal... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/is-a-dev-a-free-dev-subdomain-for-your-projects-mflmfa6sz twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: is-a.dev: A Free .dev Subdomain for Your Projects | daily.dev og:description: is-a.dev offers a free service that provides subdomains under the .dev top-level domain for developers and their projects. It's suitable for personal... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/is-a-dev-a-free-dev-subdomain-for-your-projects-mflmfa6sz og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/MFlMfa6SZ.png og:image:alt: is-a.dev: A Free .dev Subdomain for Your Projects og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # is-a.dev: A Free .dev Subdomain for Your Projects **[Dev Tools](https://daily.dev/sources/devtools)** · [@alcoceba](https://daily.dev/alcoceba) · 1 min read · 733 upvotes · 34 comments ## Summary is-a.dev offers a free service that provides subdomains under the .dev top-level domain for developers and their projects. It's suitable for personal portfolios, open-source repositories, documentation, or small apps, giving your work a professional online presence. ## Content [is-a.dev](https://is-a.dev/) is a free service that provides subdomains for developers and their projects, using the `.dev` top-level domain. Whether you're working on a personal portfolio, open-source repositories, documentation, or even a small app, this service offers a simple and effective way to give your work a professional and polished presence online. Did you know about this? Have you used is-a.dev or a similar service? ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@snazzie** · 30 upvotes > cool but personally $11-15 a year for my own domain in cloudflare is pretty affordable. > > i can have my own subdomains, access control with zero trust, reverse proxy via tunnels. metrics, bot fighting and routing rules, free storage, free serverless workers, free static deployments. **@anmolbaranwal** · 9 upvotes > Thanks for sharing, man! I didn’t know about this :) > > I’ve shared it in my community. **@namvu87** · 5 upvotes > Just tried it so you don't have to. Not worth it IMO. > Basically you have to fork their repo just to add a tiny JSON file containing with your github username, unobfuscated email address or a social media handle, an existing completed website that's hosted on either github pages, cloudflare pages, vercel, netlify or one of their supported providers. You can't add your own NS record unless you get in touch with them. Well the rest of the process isn't automated either, since your PR will be reviewed by a maintainer who'll decide if your website is good enough or not. > TL;DR: it's an absolutely... **@anshkumartriapthi** · 4 upvotes > Can anyone tell me how this technology works? > I mean that how they are providing this domain. > If possible, can anyone tell me about the logic behind this project? > Thanks **@aksarav** · 3 upvotes > If I go through the domains directory and open few json files I see lot of personal identifiable data like their email and username etc > > And it’s a public repository too > > Is this secure ? On that front ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Unveils Schedule for KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Europe 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-unveils-schedule-for-kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe-2026-ikhcoa5cb) · CNCF · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Debuts KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 Schedule](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-debuts-kubecon-cloudnativecon-japan-2026-schedule-xp5pyudub) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#general-programming](https://daily.dev/tags/general-programming), [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#webdev](https://daily.dev/tags/webdev) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/is-a-dev-a-free-dev-subdomain-for-your-projects-mflmfa6sz) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https://daily.dev/posts/is-a-dev-a-free-dev-subdomain-for-your-projects-mflmfa6sz","headline":"is-a.dev: A Free .dev Subdomain for Your Projects","text":"is-a.dev offers a free service that provides subdomains under the .dev top-level domain for developers and their projects. 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I didn’t know about this :)\nI’ve shared it in my community.","datePublished":"2025-01-08T12:17:25.117Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/MFlMfa6SZ#c-2AwIWPEum","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Anmol Baranwal","url":"https://daily.dev/anmolbaranwal","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/74038190?v=4"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":9}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Just tried it so you don’t have to. Not worth it IMO.\nBasically you have to fork their repo just to add a tiny JSON file containing with your github username, unobfuscated email address or a social media handle, an existing completed website that’s hosted on either github pages, cloudflare pages, vercel, netlify or one of their supported providers. You can’t add your own NS record unless you get in touch with them. Well the rest of the process isn’t automated either, since your PR will be reviewed by a maintainer who’ll decide if your website is good enough or not.\nTL;DR: it’s an absolutely overengineered way to ask a bunch of strangers if they can point one of their subdomains to your site, which they can take away anytime they want. Similar to these providers except the registration is not even automated. 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