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Ask HN: What are you using .dev domain for?

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Post by raviojha » Tue, Sep 03, 2019, 2:10 PM UTC

It's been marketed as the tld for devs to use it as a personal web domain.

Do you use it for any other purpose?

Re: Ask HN: What are you using .dev domain for?

Post by IloveHN84 » Tue, Sep 03, 2019, 2:22 PM UTC

For development

Post by raviojha » Tue, Sep 03, 2019, 2:32 PM UTC

IloveHN84 wrote: post #2

For development

How do you mean?

Post by brwr » Tue, Sep 03, 2019, 9:56 PM UTC

raviojha wrote: post #3

IloveHN84 wrote: post #2

For development

How do you mean?

Before it became a TLD, .dev was commonly used as an extension in /etc/hosts to point a fake domain to localhost during development.

These days I use .localhost for that.