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Re: eMail Com Between Hosts on a Private Net

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On Fri 22 Oct 2021 at 11:09:14 (-0500), Martin McCormick wrote:

> 	I was all ready to use .local as our domain name and then
> I looked that up and there is a good wikipedia article which
> explains how that is problematic and recommends using something
> like .lan, .office or something else that isn't likely to be
> registered as a top-level resolvable domain name.

The three strings that are the most certain never to be registered
as TLDs are .corp, .home and .mail.

https://features.icann.org/addressing-new-gtld-program-applications-corp-home-and-mail

I use .corp merely because it's not a Common Word, and so grepping
for it will hit the least number of false matches.

Cheers,
David.

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eMail Com Between Hosts on a Private Net "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2021-10-20 18:50 +0200
  Re: eMail Com Between Hosts on a Private Net deloptes <emanoil.kotsev@deloptes.org> - 2021-10-20 19:20 +0200
    Re: eMail Com Between Hosts on a Private Net Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-10-20 20:00 +0200
  Re: eMail Com Between Hosts on a Private Net Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2021-10-20 20:20 +0200
  Re: eMail Com Between Hosts on a Private Net Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2021-10-20 20:20 +0200
    Re: eMail Com Between Hosts on a Private Net "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2021-10-21 03:30 +0200
      Re: eMail Com Between Hosts on a Private Net Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2021-10-22 19:30 +0200
    Re: eMail Com Between Hosts on a Private Net "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2021-10-22 18:10 +0200
      Re: eMail Com Between Hosts on a Private Net Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2021-10-22 19:10 +0200
      Re: eMail Com Between Hosts on a Private Net Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2021-10-22 19:40 +0200
      Re: eMail Com Between Hosts on a Private Net David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-10-22 21:00 +0200
      Re: eMail Com Between Hosts on a Private Net Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-10-23 10:20 +0200

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