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Ask HN: What are you using .dev domain for?
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raviojha
on Sept 3, 2019
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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?
IloveHN84
on Sept 3, 2019
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For development
raviojha
on Sept 3, 2019
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How do you mean?
brwr
on Sept 3, 2019
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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.
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