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ICANN approves use of .internal domain for your network
(www.theregister.com)
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this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2024
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Browsers barf at non https now. What are we supposed to do about certificates?
Nothing, this is not about that.
This change gives you the guarantee that
.internaldomains will never be registered officially, so you can use them without the risk of your stuff breaking should ICANN ever decide to make whatever TLD you're using an official TLD.That scenario has happened in the past, for example for users of FR!TZBox routers which use
fritz.box..boxbecame available for purchase and someone boughtfritz.box, which broke browser UIs. This could've even been used maliciously, but thankfully it wasn't.