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.lan might be easily misspelled as .Ian (or .1an), and the three letters look like a "normal" TLD. If anything, .local might be a better choice.
by kmoser 3y ago
.lan might be easily misspelled as .Ian (or .1an), and the three letters look like a "normal" TLD. If anything, .local might be a better choice.
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- AnthonyMouse 3y agoExcept that .local in 2024 is already in use for mDNS. Moreover, there is no such thing as a "normal" TLD. These are some existing public top level domains: .company .industries .network The reason .lan (or, for that matter, .local) isn't really that great is there will be large corporations wanting an internal use domain that spans multiple sites, which is neither local nor Local Area Network. But since it's likely to see widespread use, it does make sense for it to be short and so easy to type, which .internal is not. A decent one would be .pri, since a lot of companies already use it and "private" is what we're going for here.
- kps 3y agoThere's an obvious solution: .local for mDNS, and any (or all) of .Iocal, .locaI, or .IocaI for internal use.