ICANN Reserves .Internal For Private Use at the DNS Level
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has agreed to reserve the .internal top-level domain so it can become the equivalent to using the 10.0.0.0, 172.16.0.0 and 192.168.0.0 IPv4 address blocks for internal networks. From a report: Those blocks are reserved for private use by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, which … ⌘ Read more

@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net I’m surprised this took so long to become standardized.

@mckinley@twtxt.net Indeed. 🤔 I guess that might put an end to AVM’s struggle regarding their http://fritz.box default URL: That should get you to the web admin of your home router, but a while ago someone actually registered fritz.box on the public internet. 😂

@movq@www.uninformativ.de We’ve had .home.arpa for a while but it just doesn’t feel natural to type. I’ve been using .internal.

Side note: I didn’t realize the .box TLD was finally live. Looks like domains are super expensive and also NFTs for some reason. Shame. https://my.box/

Yeah, that .box TLD is absolute rubbish.

@bender@twtxt.net If anything was going to be an NFT, a domain name would probably make the most sense, but I don’t think that system would be any better than the current one and it would make domain squatting even worse.