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How to choose a sensible local domain name for a home network?

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Mar 15, 202672894 views

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Is there any convention on possible naming for local domain names (like .local), apart from not using any possible or existing top-level domain? Wikipedia says that .local conflicts with zeroconf .localhost is reserved, but is traditionally translated statically to 127.0.0.1 .site and .internal are…

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The question has been treated in detail on ServerFault. Executive summary; do not use or another dummy TLD, use a real domain.

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