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301 points todsacerdoti | 1 comments | 10 Apr 25 14:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | source
1. AStonesThrow ◴[10 Apr 25 15:02 UTC] No.43644547[source]▶
I pondered the question of local-only domains since long ago, and in consultation with Chris Siebenmann, I determined that the most courteous way was actually to subdomain from my ISP.

That’s right: I invented a fictitious subdomain under one my ISP controlled and I never registered it or deployed public DNS for it. It worked great, for my dumb local purposes.

Example:

  aten.mysub.isp.net.
  porta.mysub.isp.net.
  smartphone.mysub.isp.net.
Thus it was easy to remember, easy to add new entries, and was guaranteed to stay out of the way from any future deployments, as long as my ISP never chose to also use the unique subdomain tag I invented...