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A comment on Ask HN: What are you using .dev domain for?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: What are you using .dev domain for? by raviojha on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @10:32AM (#20866824)
How do you mean?
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Re:Ask HN: What are you using .dev domain for? by brwr on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @05:56PM (#20871624)
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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