Where to buy .staging; .dev; .test TLDs

[Stuart]

I’m trying to get my staging site set up and not have to move my license back and forth between sites.

This articles says I need a very specific TLD.

https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/using-one-license-live-dev-sites/

My question is where can I buy one of these?

Thanks,
Stuart

[Andras]

Hello Stuart,

Thanks for reaching out! What a great question you have there! I guess this has some people wondering too.

. staging, .test and .dev are top level domains which are not for sale. (I believe .dev is available for pre-registration at some places.)

This is more if you set up a local environment on your PC and set it up to be accessible under the domain mypc.dev (or whateverdomain.dev). In a windows PC you usually do that in your hosts file.

I hope this answers your question. Let me know if I can help you with anything else.

Cheers,
Andras

[Stuart]

Thanks András,

I went ahead and upgraded my license to a business as I wanted my staging site to be on a server (as opposed to my laptop). I need to easily collaborate with my team in various parts of the world before deploying site configurations.

I thought moving the one key back forth, while doable, would get tedious.

I do wish the personal license allowed for at least a second testing site that was a subdomain of the live site (which is how I configured mine). If there is a way to do that without buying the business license, please let me know.

Many thanks and cheers!
Stuart

[Andras]

Hello Stuart,

Thanks for getting back to me on this topic.

I agree with you, if you need to move the key around a lot, that can get tedious. Though I believe we are not releasing updates that often that it would get too annoying and usually we tend to release updates to all our plugins at once. A business license is a way to go for sure.

Yesterday we had a longer discussion in the team about what is allowed and what is not, and at the moment subdomains are not in the allowed bunch. Though this might be a good idea so we will be looking into this.

Is there anything else I can help you with?

Cheers,
Andras

 

[Stuart]

Dear András,

Thanks for bringing this to your team and for looking into this.

I hope you have a great day!

Stuart

[Andras]

Sure thing Stuart.

Since this is marked resolved I am going to close this ticket, but if you need anything else related to this topic or another please post a new one in the forum and we will be happy to help you out.

Good luck with your project!

Cheers,
Andras

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