What is the advantage of having a domain name (spotilocal) that resolves to 127.0.0.1?

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Not sure if this is best suited to Programmers, Server Fault or Stack Overflow. It\'s not, however, a question about developing for Facebook.

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One of the advantages of using a custom domain is that it looks a lot more trustworthy. I've seen a good chunk of Windows malware that sets up a local proxy server; any web requests that go to 127.0.0.1 (and not on a test web server the user knows about) would look pretty suspicious, which I'm sure both Facebook and Spotify would like to avoid.