On Mon 23 Oct 2023 at 12:06:05 (+0200), Christian Groessler wrote: > On 10/23/23 07:29, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 1:24 AM ghe2001 <ghe2...@protonmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > How about a /29 or so, named "here.<your initials>", hosts named 2 or 3 > > > letter abbreviations of what you call the computers, with unroutable IPs, > > > DNS'ed in /etc/hosts (with shortcuts). > > > > Whatever you come up with for <your initials>, ICANN can add to the > > gTLD namespace; see <https://icannwiki.org/Brand_TLD>. > > Just register a daomain and use that.
That costs money, and I can't see the point when there are TLDs that are perfectly safe already available, like .home.arpa, and before that, .{corp,home,mail}. Cheers, David.