What counts as a "domain"?

[tocloco]

A domain is a single fully qualified hostname that you serve the grid from in production, named on your key. The metric is the exact hostname, not the registered domain, so subdomains are counted separately: example.com, www.example.com and app.example.com are three domains, and example.com and example.co.uk are two. The match ignores the scheme, the port and the path, is not case sensitive, and treats the Unicode and Punycode forms of a name as the same domain. Internal hostnames and IP addresses count as domains in the same way.

Two things never count. Development on localhost and other loopback addresses (localhost, any *.localhost name, 127.0.0.0/8 and ::1) is free, needs no key, and shows no watermark. And you are never charged per person: one domain covers every developer, contractor, agency and build agent working on what runs there, and every end user of it.

A wildcard such as *.example.com covers that registered domain and every subdomain beneath it at any depth, including the bare example.com itself, under one key. It does not reach a different top level domain of the same name, so *.example.com does not cover example.co.uk.

Staging, preview, QA and CI hostnames render the full grid with no key; they simply carry the trial watermark until you license them. If you want a staging URL with no watermark, license that hostname like any other, or serve it from a loopback host to keep it out of the licence entirely.

[toclocoinc]

A domain is one hostname, exactly as the browser sees it in the address bar. www.example.com and app.example.com are two domains; example.com is a third. The scheme, the port and the path do not matter, and the comparison ignores case. Internal hostnames and plain IP addresses count as domains too.

If you would rather cover everything under one name, the wildcard licence (*.example.com) covers the registered domain, the apex, and every subdomain at any depth.

Two things that do not consume a domain: localhost and loopback, where the grid runs in full with no key at all; and any other host before you license it, where the grid still renders in full and shows a trial watermark. So a staging site costs nothing until you decide you want the watermark gone.

Pricing per domain, the three-domain pack and the wildcard are on https://www.latticegrid.dev/pricing/.