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		abritinthebay on Sept 17, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Chrome to force .dev domains to HTTPS via preloade... .dev was specifically championed by... someone in the Ruby community I think... like 6-7 years ago. It stuck, annoyingly, like a misinformed fad that won’t go away. I agree btw - .test or .local - anything else is just asking for problems

CydeWeys on Sept 17, 2017 | [–]

That's really unfortunate then, as the new gTLD expansion was already known and underway at the time.

ende on Sept 17, 2017 | [–]

.example works too

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