Staging and 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.

TLDs that are considered as dev or staging:

• *.dev
• *.dev.cc (DesktopServer)
• *.test
• *.local
• *.staging
• *.example
• *.invalid

Subdomains that are considered as dev or staging:

• local.*
• dev.*
• test.*
• stage.*
• staging.*
• stagingN.* (SiteGround; N is an unsigned int)
• *.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)
• *.wpengine.com (WP Engine)
• *.wpenginepowered.com (WP Engine)
• dev-*.pantheonsite.io (Pantheon)
• test-*.pantheonsite.io (Pantheon)
• staging-*.kinsta.com (Kinsta)
• staging-*.kinsta.cloud (Kinsta)
• *-dev.10web.site (10Web)
• *-dev.10web.cloud (10Web)

These top-level domains are considered dev or staging:

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

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