New gTLD Application for .lan

Re:New gTLD Application for .lan by moecables on Thursday October 08, 2026 @12:34PM (#50007998)

I'm out of the loop on this, can someone explain who this is and why this is bad?

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Re:New gTLD Application for .lan by gavinsyancey on Thursday October 08, 2026 @05:52PM (#50012892)

.lan is widely used (by OpenWRT and Ubiquity and likely others) by home / SMB routers, where all connected devices will automatically be assigned hostname.lan. Technically, .home.arpa and/or .internal are designated for this, but .home.arpa is pretty clunky and they're very new (.home.arpa is from 2018 and .internal from 2024). Usage of .lan for this predates either.

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Re:New gTLD Application for .lan by yonatan8070 on Friday October 09, 2026 @12:47AM (#50016090)

For example I use a PiHole with local DNS records for my services like immich.lan, paperless.lan, etc.

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