ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs

Fri Jun 27 19:20:59 UTC 2008

On Fri, 27 Jun 2008, Jon Kibler wrote:
>
> Well, I guess this shoots in the foot Microsoft's name server best
> practices of setting up your AD domain as foo.LOCAL, using the logic
> that .LOCAL is safe because it cannot be resolved by the root name servers.

.local is also used by MDNS. (Nice interop problem there.)

Tony.
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