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lightvision/icann make local developers to have nightmares

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Avoid naming development sites with .dev suffix
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icann make local developers to have nightmares
Recent changes to ICANN lead to several problems to local sites developers that habits to name their local development sites as devsite.dev .
One of them is that your development site will leak to your dns service provider.
Another problem is that it will try to resolve your *.dev site when your development server is offline.
Solution: rename all your development sites to *.local.
This will lead to unknown host if the respective site is not in your host and if it is will allow local server to serve it without leakage to outside world.
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