Having an untraditional gTLD like .xyz makes many confused as well, especially those not in IT.

Sometimes boring is better, sticking to the fundamentals. I didn’t like when signal tried to mix crypto into it.

I would have loved this as a drunk college kid at 2 am.

Its the same for all East Asian countries as well, but I guess slapping JAPAN on it means fast upvotes, like that "Place, Japan" meme.

It should be perfectly doable. The only difference is that the server in on the local network (e.g. 192.168.1.101) instead of localhost (127.0.0.1). You might need to configure your OS firewall to let traffic through.