I have a Raspberry PI Zero W configured as a Wi-Fi access point and running a web server. Its hostname is a-casa-de-casario. I can access my website perfectly from any other machine connected to the local network provided by the PI using the a-casa-de-casario.local address. But is there a way to get rid of the .local suffix so as to access the website using only the a-casa-de-casario address?

I have a Raspberry PI Zero W configured as a Wi-Fi access point and running a web server. Its hostname is a-casa-de-casario. I can access my website perfectly from any other machine connected to the local network provided by the PI using the a-casa-de-casario.local address. But is there a way to get rid of the .local suffix so as to access the website using only the a-casa-de-casario address?

The PI Zero W is providing the access point through its wlan0 interface and is therefore not connected to any other network. Here is the relevant part of /etc/dhcpcd.conf :

interface wlan0
  static ip_address=192.168.4.1/24
  static domain_name_servers=192.168.4.1
  nohook wpa_supplicant