Why does the registered domain name “localtest.me” resolve to 127.0.0.1?

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Full question
https://superuser.com/questions/1280827/...

Question links:
[reading an article]: http://www.sxcurity.pro/2017/12/17/hacke...
http://readme.localtest.me/
[found several more in these comments]: https://weblogs.asp.net/owscott/introduc...
[similar]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2378...
[questions]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1562...

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#networking #dns #ip #domain #localhost

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