On 5 Aug 2024 00:34 +1000, from c...@goproject.info (George at Clug): >> Standards don't tend to be abolished unless there's a good reason. >> There wasn't a standard before home.arpa. Since 2013 it's been "use >> your own globally unique registered domain, or else use home.arpa".
The RFC specifying .home.arpa is from 2018. > But thanks to everyone posting, and reading on the links people have > provided, and a few searches, I now believe home.arpa is good for > now, and expect .internal will also be good for the future. Until > things change once more. The odds that either .home.arpa _or_ .internal (after it has gone through the full RFC process) will be retired for the purpose of non-unique private use seem low. The cost of retiring either will be relatively high if they end up being widely used, and the benefit of doing so will be quite low. So for right now, as far as I am aware, the officially recommended (by ICANN and IANA) options are to either (a) use a domain name you actually control (whether or not names in it are resolvable on the global Internet), or (b) use .home.arpa. At some point in the near future, that list will very likely be extended with (c) use .internal. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”
