ICANN approves use of .internal domain for your network

Vint Cerf revealed Google already uses the string, as do plenty of others

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It would have been nice if they came up with something shorter like .lan.
Sorry. I chose .local and I'm sticking to it.
It should be reserved for sex toys.

Just saying.
Browsers barf at non https now. What are we supposed to do about certificates?
Why do I care what ICANN says I can do on my own network? It's my network, I do what I want.
I will stick with .lan
That's good, I never liked the clunky .home.arpa domain.

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters	More Letters
CA	(SSL) Certificate Authority
DNS	Domain Name Service/System
HTTP	Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
HTTPS	HTTP over SSL
IP	Internet Protocol
SSL	Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption
TLS	Transport Layer Security, supersedes SSL
VPN	Virtual Private Network

6 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 6 acronyms.

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Took long enough
Missed the opportunity for .myshit.
Interesting. I've been using ".home.arpa" for a while now, since that's one of the other often used ways.
Thank god. Now iOS will finally recognize it
Next up!

ICANN approves use of .awesome-selfhosted domain for your network
Woohoo! We internal now! No more FQDN collisions!
I guess no one offered anything for .internal
routerlogin.net how I do not miss you
We use .lh, short for localhost. For local network services I use service discovery and .local. And for internal stuff we just use a subdomain of our domain.
I personally use .nexus for my network.
My network is .milkme and I have nipples… will they approve it?

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