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		VoodooJuJu on Aug 9, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: .INTERNAL is now reserved for private-use applicat... Why did something so useful and simple like this take so long to make official?

poikroequ on Aug 9, 2024 | [–]

Things like this are rarely simple or obvious. I don't know what potential gotchas there could have been, but I'm sure there were strange and unusual things they had to carefully consider before making this an official standard.

Hamuko on Aug 10, 2024 | [–]

ICANN didn't understand why you weren't simply just using the recommend .home.arpa TLD.

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