On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 02:12:40PM -0500, Christopher Browne via talk wrote: > Big "+1" on that... > > I use a local subset of a TLD I own. There is NO risk of some surprise > happening as a consequence of ICANN delegating a new TLD. > > I seem to recall there being a problem when the new gTLDs came along where > printers (HP, most likely) started pinging at outside names because "that > would never happen" wound up happening. > > It sure would be nice if ICANN or IETF were to declare a TLD or three as > being the TLD equivalent to "non-routable local private IPs" like > 192.168.*.*, but this hasn't happened.
Well RFC 6761 does reserve: .invalid .test .localhost So that at least is a few that could be used especially that last one. -- Len Sorensen --- Post to this mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
