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Re:New gTLD Application for .lan by stackskipton on Thursday October 08, 2026 @12:23PM (#50007817)
As former AD person and dealing with that several companies, the recommendation for internal network DNS has long been subdomain.company.com that is not on public internet.

Even today when setting up greenfield networks, I generally use internal.company.com. It also lets you get public trusted SSL certificates so you don't have to deal with internal PKI.

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Re:New gTLD Application for .lan by Faelian2 on Thursday October 08, 2026 @12:43PM (#50008144)
`.internal` and `.local` are safe and won't be used in the future. There are reserved for internal networks
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Re:New gTLD Application for .lan by john_strinlai on Thursday October 08, 2026 @12:48PM (#50008241)
while .local is reserved, it's reserved for mDNS, and should be avoided on things like active directory. using an internal subdomain of a registered public domain is best practice. .internal is also okay.
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