Also .local "Despite not being a valid top-level domain in the Internet, considerable DNS traffic that queries the local domain exists in the public Domain Nam

Also .local "Despite not being a valid top-level domain in the Internet, considerable DNS traffic that queries the local domain exists in the public Domain Name System.[1] In June 2009, the L root server received more than 400 such queries per second,[2] ranking 4th in DNS traffic of all TLDs after COM, ARPA, and NET." [1] Scary potential for mischief-making. Hopefully ICANN would reject applications for these domains, but I'm not sure I'd take that level of competence for granted. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.local http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.local