Localhost, staging and development environments won't get counted toward the license’s maximum allowed sites if its domain name is clearly a dev or staging site.
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.co (InstaWP)
- *.instawp.link (InstaWP)
- *.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)
Additionally, if your domain is localhost (with any port), it will also be treated as a localhost domain.
Custom Staging / Development / Testing / Localhost Patterns
If your site use a custom URL/pattern for the staging/development/testing/localhost environment, please login to your account and open a support ticket and it will be marked as such.