Chrome to force .dev domains to HTTPS via preloaded HSTS

Mattias Geniar reminds us that Chrome, according to this commit in Chromium, will very soon preload .dev domains as HTTPS via preloaded HSTS. The domain name has been bought by Google and they now want it to be exclusively accessible only via HTTPS. So if you use a .dev name in your projects—often on your local machine, registered manually via the hosts file, you should switch to the reserved .test domain name now or consider using localhost instead from now on. Once the patch lands in Chrome, you’ll not be able to access your projects anymore without a valid TLS certificate in place.