Dev Domains

All of our licences allow use on staging and/or development domains without counting towards your site activations limit. However, your domain name must reflect one of the allowed TLDs or Subdomains.

These top-level domains are considered dev or staging:

*.dev
*.test
*.local
*.staging
*.example
*.invalid
*.myftpupload.com (GoDaddy)
*.cloudwaysapps.com (Cloudways)
*.ngrok.io (tunneling)

Subdomains that are considered as dev or staging:

local.*
dev.*
test.*
staging.*
stagingN.* (SiteGround; N is an unsigned int)
*.staging.wpengine.com (WP Engine)
dev-*.pantheonsite.io (Pantheon)
test-*.pantheonsite.io (Pantheon)
staging-*.kinsta.com (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, and it is not viable for you to change it, just send us a message and we’ll see what can be done.