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denom | 7 years ago

I sort of get the appeal of a '.dev' TLD, but I wish that google donated the whole thing to those who were using it informally for local development.

That would have been a good gift to all the devs out there.

discuss

Twisol|7 years ago

The `.test` and `.localhost` TLDs are already reserved for such purposes: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2606

reaperducer|7 years ago

.test is OK, but as was pointed out in the HN discussion on this topic last week, .localhost is problematic in some operating systems.

jolmg|7 years ago

Interesting. Because my /etc/hosts file had the following as a default:

    127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
    ::1  localhost.localdomain localhost

I thought it was `.localdomain` that was reserved.

dragonwriter|7 years ago

localhost is reserved for a very different purpose, though .local is a reserved pseudo-TLD for a purpose encompassing much of what was suggest by GP for .dev.

francislavoie|7 years ago

There are more devs than just web devs. Just sayin'

organsnyder|7 years ago

Web devs aren't the only ones that need test/dummy hostnames. That being said, as mentioned in another comment, there are other TLDs already reserved for such use.