Localhost is a reserved domain, it was and never will be intended for use in a real life DNS. It was devised in June 1999 by RFC 2606, along with .example .invalid and .test. Its reservation is intended to avoid confusion between the localhost and localhost. It has known as localhost on the loopback of 127.0.0.1 which is the loopback for your PC.

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