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    is-a-dev

    is-a-dev/register

    Grab your own sweet-looking '.is-a.dev' subdomain.

    networking
    cloudflare
    dev
    developer
    dns
    domain
    JavaScript
    MIT
    11.8K stars
    34.7K forks
    40 GitHub watchers
    Updated Nov 9, 2026
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    Where it stands

    Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.

    The project lists 400 contributors on GitHub.

    Peaked at #24 in the weekly ranking the week of Jul 19, its best in the past year.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Provides free .is-a.dev subdomains for developers to create personalized, professional-looking personal websites.
    • Built with JavaScript and integrates with Cloudflare DNS, supporting various DNS record types with a focus on security and abuse prevention.
    • Strong community engagement with active pull request reviews and abuse reporting; NS records are restricted to prevent misuse.
    • Highly popular with over 7,000 stars and 13,000 forks, indicating widespread adoption and trust among developers.
    • Ideal for developers seeking a free, easy-to-register subdomain for personal projects, portfolios, or developer websites.

    Should you depend on it?

    License terms, project hygiene and risks, from GitHub metadata and GStars' snapshots.

    License

    MIT

    Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.

    Community files

    • README: present

    Watch-outs

    • No GitHub releases; pin a commit or tag instead of a release.

    General guidance from repository metadata, not legal advice. How we score

    From the README

    is-a.dev is a service that allows developers to get a sweet-looking .is-a.dev subdomain for their personal websites.

    Please join our Discord server for announcements, updates & upgrades, and downtime notifications regarding the service. Not all of these will be posted on GitHub^1, however they will always be posted in our Discord server.

    If you want a visual guide, check out this blog post.

    Excerpt from the is-a-dev/register README on GitHub (MIT license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

    Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots

    Aug 13: +12Aug 14: +1Aug 15: +10Aug 16: +8Aug 17: +4Aug 28: +8Aug 29: +8Aug 30: +9Aug 31: +3Sep 1: +3Sep 2: +13Sep 3: +3Sep 4: +14Sep 5: +0Sep 6: +26Sep 7: +2Sep 10: +13Sep 11: +6Sep 12: +14Sep 13: +16Sep 14: +17Sep 15: +16Sep 16: +5Sep 17: +13Sep 18: +1Sep 19: +6Sep 20: +5Sep 21: +7Sep 22: +16Sep 23: +14Sep 24: +6Sep 25: +7Sep 26: +4Sep 27: +4Sep 28: +10Oct 2: +9Oct 3: +11Oct 4: +13Oct 5: +3Oct 6: +0Oct 27: +10

    +827 stars over 90 days across 50 snapshot days; best day +26 on Sep 6.

    Forks

    34.7K+8.0K

    Open issues

    72-224

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