Development domains

All licence types allow use in staging and/or development domains without counting towards your site activations limit. There are some rules which automatically make certain domains eligible for development or staging.

These top-level domains are considered dev or staging:

• *.dev
• *.dev.cc (DesktopServer)
• *.test
• *.local
• *.staging
• *.example
• *.invalid
• *.myftpupload.com (GoDaddy)
• *.cloudwaysapps.com (Cloudways)
• *.wpsandbox.pro (WPSandbox)
• *.ngrok.io (tunneling)
• *.mystagingwebsite.com (Pressable)
• *.tempurl.host (WPMU DEV)
• *.wpmudev.host (WPMU DEV)
• *.websitepro-staging.com (Vendasta)
• *.websitepro.hosting (Vendasta)
• *.instawp.xyz (InstaWP)

Subdomains that are considered as dev or staging:

• local.*
• dev.*
• test.*
• stage.*
• staging.*
• stagingN.* (SiteGround; N is an unsigned int)
• .wpengine.com (WP Engine) dev-.pantheonsite.io (Pantheon)
• test-.pantheonsite.io (Pantheon) staging-.kinsta.com (Kinsta)
• staging-*.kinsta.cloud (Kinsta)

Additionally, if your domain is localhost (with any port), it will also be treated as a localhost domain.

If your domain isn’t in the list, just send us a message and we can activate a custom domain for you.