Chrome redirects .dev to https

Question

Suddenly Google Chrome redirects my virtual-host domain myapplication.dev to https://myapplication.dev. I already tried to go to

chrome://net-interna

Answer 1

This problem can't be fixed. Below is the reason:

1. Google owns .dev gTLD
2. Chrome forces HTTP to HTTPS on .dev domain directly within the source code.

From the 2nd link below:

...
// eTLDs
// At the moment, this only includes Google-owned gTLDs,
// but other gTLDs and eTLDs are welcome to preload if they are interested.
{ "name": "google", "include_subdomains": true, "mode": "force-https", "pins": "google" },
{ "name": "dev", "include_subdomains": true, "mode": "force-https" },
{ "name": "foo", "include_subdomains": true, "mode": "force-https" },
{ "name": "page", "include_subdomains": true, "mode": "force-https" },
{ "name": "app", "include_subdomains": true, "mode": "force-https" },
{ "name": "chrome", "include_subdomains": true, "mode": "force-https" },
...

References

• ICANN Wiki Google
• Chromium Source - transport_security_state_static.json