On 2018-02-21, Reco <recovery...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > ".local" is out too -- reserved for mDNS (bonjour / avahi ). >> >> Oh, for gawd's sake. Is there not an RFC for local domains ? > > There is, see RFC 7788 and RFC 8244. ".home", while being controversial, > is probably fine. And there's ".test", which is perfectly fine as far as > RFC 6761 concerned.
https://icannwiki.org/.home TLD;DR Name Collision Concerns Impede Delegation ICANN hired firm Interisle Consulting to carry out an independent investigation on the issues that may arise from new gTLDs that are identical to TLDs being used on internal networks. The publishing of the report sparked a community-wide debate that later became known as the Name Collision issue. The firm reported at ICANN 47 that .home and .corp gTLDs were cause for serious concern since those strings are widely in use by internal naming systems. In response to the report, ICANN labeled the .home and .corp strings as "high risk" and proposed that neither of the strings be delegated until it could be proven that risk is low.[8] These two strings are currently severely delayed and some community members guess they may never be delegated. They hired a consulting firm. > Reco -- New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining and the perishable dream itself. To think of 'living' there was to reduce the miraculous to the mundane; one does not 'live' at Xanadu. --Joan Didion
