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I love Pow, but I really, really wish they'd change their default tld from .dev to .local. The .dev TLD might end up existing soon[1], whereas .local is reserv

I love Pow, but I really, really wish they'd change their default tld from .dev to .local. The .dev TLD might end up existing soon[1], whereas .local is reserved and will never exist on root nameservers[2]. So eventually, developers using Pow might have conflicts between their local-only dev sites and real websites. Bad mojo. 1 http://icannwiki.com/.dev http://icannwiki.com/.dev 2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.local http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.local

saidajigumi 12y ago
That won't work if you're using mDNS on the local network, as the dnsmasq resolution will hijack all queries to .local. Really, there just needs to be a small set of reserved TLDs. This includes one for which queries should never* be issued off a given host. .local (== 127.0.0.1) would have been ideal, but zeroconf slurped it up first. I'd put my vote in for .dev, but the Wikipedia link indicates that Google's looking to score it. :-P
- scott_karana 12y ago
  I guess .localhost (already reserved for exactly that purpose) would work then. :)