[ALUG] "Private" TLDs

[Erik Rowberg]

Thanks for that.  I didn't consider that scenario.

erik

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On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 7:52 AM, Andreas Tauscher <ta at lonestar-bbs.de>wrote:

> Many admins use within their network a not existing TLD like .home
> .office .inside .localdomain and so on.
> Since years the ICANN is complaining about this practice [1].
>
> Best practice is to use a subdomain of your anyway (?) existing domain.
>
> For testing and docmentation the four TLDs .test .example .invalid and
> .localhost are reserved (rfc2606). How to handle this domains in your
> DNS is described in rfc6761.
>
> With the introduction of about 1000 new TLD the risk internal network
> now colliding with an real existing TLD is much higher. And the number
> will increase even more.
>
> To stop this practice the ICANN released some guides how to migrate to a
> official namespace. [2]
>
> If you are using such an "private" TLD you should migrate asap to avoid
> connectivity problems.
>
> Andreas
>
> [1] http://www.icann.org/en/groups/ssac/documents/sac-045-en.pdf
> [2] http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-06dec13-en.htm
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