[dns-operations] TLD(s) for private use

[Andrew Sullivan]

On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 10:51:29AM -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
> It would be easy to avoid collisions though (unlike IP addresses, DNS
> can be arbitrary length, up to a limit).  Rather than use foo.internal,
> prepend a registered domain, like foo.dns-oarc.net.internal.

And that nicely illustrates why this isn't a problem that needs
solving: unlike the IPv4 space, we have plenty of octets in the 255
limit.  So, there is no need for people go to stomping about on some
supposedly shared "private" space.  If you can do
foo.dns-oarc.net.internal, you can just as easily do
internal.foo.dns-oarc.net.  The analogy with RFC1918 address space is
just a hammer looking for nails.

Bet regards,

A

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