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.dev Was HTTPS-Locked Two Years Before You Could Register It — HSTS, Localhost Collisions, and the Engineer URL
~642k active names, Charleston Road Registry on Nomulus, Chromium HSTS preload since September 2017 (before GA February 2019), the local-*.dev breakage story, verified roofs from web.dev to github.dev—and why the old guide's AIO boilerplate and "created for developers" tagline failed audit.
