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Honest question: why can't TP-Link use internal domain names [1][2] for their router configurations? Since internal domain names are reserved/deprecated from pu

• mercora 10y ago
  I tried and could not find any mention of a TLD for private and general use. Do you refer to the use of a name without a TLD, like "example"? I think while "example." would make up a valid domain name (not sure about that though), it would not be very useful for this purpose as browsers nowadays tend to try to guess if you are entering a search term. A much more useful approach would be the existence of a reserved TLD for private use analogue to the private IP address space. But it seems like nothing like that has been defined. Update: Out of curiosity i did search for some more information if "example." is a valid domain or not... While technically valid and [0]used for while by some TLD registries, ICANN has [1]forbidden the use of so called dotless domains. Google planned to use "search." but it was [2]declined. [0] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7085 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7085 [1] https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2013-08-30-en https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2013-08-30-en [2] http://www.zdnet.com/article/icann-kills-google-dotless-domain-hopes/ http://www.zdnet.com/article/icann-kills-google-dotless-doma...