Well, .local would be reserved if the mDNS draft, http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-cheshire-dnsext-multicastdns-14 http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-cheshire-dns

Well, .local would be reserved if the mDNS draft, http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-cheshire-dnsext-multicastdns-14 http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-cheshire-dnsext-multicastdn... , ever progressed to an actual RFC. It is already a de-facto standard, with several implementations.