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301 points todsacerdoti | 2 comments | 10 Apr 25 14:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.424s | source
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mjevans ◴[10 Apr 25 14:50 UTC] No.43644380[source]▶
Once again, .local should _never_ have been assigned to any organization. Just like .lan should also be reserved like the private IP blocks.
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1. XorNot ◴[10 Apr 25 14:53 UTC] No.43644423[source]▶
Don't we have ".internal" for that?
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2. jeroenhd ◴[10 Apr 25 15:00 UTC] No.43644513[source]▶
The TLD hasn't been registered, but it has been added to the list of reserved names so effectively that's the domain you should use if you don't want to use real names.

.local also works fine, of course, if you enable mDNS and don't try to use normal DNS.