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Originally Posted by BSDfan666
... just avoid choosing a domain name that is on the public Internet, as you'll be unable to reach them.
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Exactly so. Hence be sure to avoid choosing a top level domain (TLD) from
this list.
What has always puzzled me is that the IANA (or whoever is in charge of deciding these things), apparently has not reserved at least one TLD permanently for private use, i.e., guaranteed that it won't ever be used on the public internet. (Although there have been some
suggestions for private name space.) This would be the analog, for domain names, of the well known private IP addresses like 10.x.x.x etc. Since the name space is effectively infinite, the cost of reserving a piece of it would seem negligible.