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ekimekim on Feb 17, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google .dev domain early access

.test is also problematic for the purpose of hosting internal (but not development/testing) domains on a private network.

There is a draft RFC to reserve .internal for this purpose, which I think makes a lot of sense.

https://github.com/wkumari/draft-wkumari-dnsop-internal

takeda on Feb 17, 2019 [–]

.lan would be much better name.

ekimekim on Feb 17, 2019 | [–]

An internal network might not be a LAN - for example, it might be a company's entire internal infrastructure spread over three offices and a datacenter with VPN.

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