22 Jan
2020
22 Jan
'20
11:25 a.m.
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