I know there are lots of tutorial out there to setup and use Dnsmasq, but bare with me this is also for my own sake (so I don’t have to look on how to do it the next time I setup a computer from scratch).

First thing first you need to install Dnsmasq. You can do so using homebrew on mac:

brew install dnsmasq

Next you need to add a new config line for you custom domain or extension in the dnsmasq.conf config file (at the end of it).

# If you installed with brew the config lives here : /usr/local/etc/dnsmasq.conf
# Add the following to the above file
address=/.domain.net/127.0.0.1 #or any IP really

# Note: You can also specify only the .tld without any domain prefixes

Last thing you need to do is tell your computer resolver to use Dnsmasq

# In /etc/resolver create a new file following the pattern of .domain.tld but removing the first ".". So in our example: domain.net

# In domain.net add the following:
nameserver 127.0.0.1

Now launch Dnsmasq as a service using brew.

brew services start dnsmasq

Done!