[zeekay]

Personally I'd prefer .dev for local development ala http://passingcuriosity.com/2013/dnsmasq-dev-osx/.

Let's petition Apple to make this default in OSX. Game, set match.

[WorldWideWayne]

I always use .local and it's really frustrating that Chrome leaks these addresses to Google when I forget to type a trailing slash. Instead of hitting my local dnsmasq server, it does a search for the address that I typed in.