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With all the hacks that people have put in place for using .dev locally, who in their right mind would want to even register and use a .dev domain? :P

by 0x0 9y ago

lucb1e 9y ago
As a developer, I never used .dev for development and I don't know anyone who does. The number of developers around the world is a small percentage of all users, let alone if not all of them have this redirect. And those who do probably use /etc/hosts, so your specific host needs to be in there (since the hosts file does, unfortunately, not do wildcards)... yeah, I think people are not going to have any second thoughts registering .dev domains.
- corobo 9y ago
  I use .dev via dnsmasq resolving *.dev to 127.0.0.1. I wouldn't register any dev domains though these are supposed to be throwaways based on the project (my "serve" script takes the folder name and uses that plus .dev as a domain) I'll just switch to .test as recommended elsewhere
- evolve2k 9y ago
  Basecamps open source project POW (http://pow.cx http://pow.cx), specifically configures rails projects to be automatically available at projectname.dev From the homepage "That’s it! Your app will be up and running at http://myapp.dev/ http://myapp.dev/. See the user’s manual for more information." I'm sure basecamp won't love this change and I'd guess many rails devs won't like this either.
  - dbbk 9y ago
    As does the popular Laravel Valet (https://laravel.com/docs/5.5/valet https://laravel.com/docs/5.5/valet) service in the PHP world.
  - spiralganglion 9y ago
    Let's hope this issue gets some traction: https://github.com/basecamp/pow/issues/545 https://github.com/basecamp/pow/issues/545 It's a bit unnerving that the project hasn't seen an update since 2014, and has 100 open issues.
- tokenizerrr 9y ago
  I use it and have for like 5-10 years now. Then gTLDs happened and Google bought it. And now they're being total dicks and destroying my infra.
kuschku 9y ago
Google uses .dev also locally – the only name registered on .dev is google.dev, which resolves to 127.0.53.53 – a localhost address.
- CydeWeys 9y ago
  127.0.53.53 is the IP address used for ICANN's Controlled Interruption process. It essentially means "fix your shit; you're unintentionally leaking requests to the Internet". We do not use .dev locally.

With all the hacks that people have put in place for using .dev locally, who in their right mind would want to even register and use a .dev domain? :P

by 0x0 9y ago

With all the hacks that people have put in place for using .dev locally, who in their right mind would want to even register and use a .dev domain? :P

lucb1e 9y ago

As a developer, I never used .dev for development and I don't know anyone who does. The number of developers around the world is a small percentage of all users, let alone if not all of them have this redirect. And those who do probably use /etc/hosts, so your specific host needs to be in there (since the hosts file does, unfortunately, not do wildcards)... yeah, I think people are not going to have any second thoughts registering .dev domains.

corobo 9y ago
I use .dev via dnsmasq resolving *.dev to 127.0.0.1. I wouldn't register any dev domains though these are supposed to be throwaways based on the project (my "serve" script takes the folder name and uses that plus .dev as a domain) I'll just switch to .test as recommended elsewhere
evolve2k 9y ago
Basecamps open source project POW (http://pow.cx http://pow.cx), specifically configures rails projects to be automatically available at projectname.dev From the homepage "That’s it! Your app will be up and running at http://myapp.dev/ http://myapp.dev/. See the user’s manual for more information." I'm sure basecamp won't love this change and I'd guess many rails devs won't like this either.
- dbbk 9y ago
  As does the popular Laravel Valet (https://laravel.com/docs/5.5/valet https://laravel.com/docs/5.5/valet) service in the PHP world.
- spiralganglion 9y ago
  Let's hope this issue gets some traction: https://github.com/basecamp/pow/issues/545 https://github.com/basecamp/pow/issues/545 It's a bit unnerving that the project hasn't seen an update since 2014, and has 100 open issues.
tokenizerrr 9y ago
I use it and have for like 5-10 years now. Then gTLDs happened and Google bought it. And now they're being total dicks and destroying my infra.

kuschku 9y ago

Google uses .dev also locally – the only name registered on .dev is google.dev, which resolves to 127.0.53.53 – a localhost address.

CydeWeys 9y ago
127.0.53.53 is the IP address used for ICANN's Controlled Interruption process. It essentially means "fix your shit; you're unintentionally leaking requests to the Internet". We do not use .dev locally.