Then you’ll really like to hear that not only do I edit the file with vim on the production server, but I did it as root after a “sudo su”… and then I committed the change from prod… with svn… only so that I could bring my dev environment up to speed with what is now in production with an svn update.
I hope that something like web3 domains might fix things like this someday. Instead of borrowing the domain from a registrar, the immutable record is owned and maintained by you.