.home is an
ICANN
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN ) is a global multistakeholder group and nonprofit organization headquartered in the United States responsible for coordinating the maintenance and procedures of several dat ...
rejected
generic top-level domain
Generic top-level domains (gTLDs) are one of the categories of top-level domains (TLDs) maintained by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) for use in the Domain Name System of the Internet. A top-level domain is the last level of ev ...
proposed in 2012. The ICANN Board issued a resolution on February 4, 2018 to cease the processing of all applications for the
.corp, .home, and
.mail gTLDs.
Technical concerns
Investigation into the conflicts regarding gTLDs that are in use in internal networks was conducted at ICANN's request by
Interisle Consulting. The resulting report was to become known as the Name Collision issue, which was first reported at ICANN 47.
See also
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Top Level Domain
A top-level domain (TLD) is one of the domains at the highest level in the hierarchical Domain Name System of the Internet after the root domain. The top-level domain names are installed in the root zone of the name space. For all domains i ...
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Generic top-level domain
Generic top-level domains (gTLDs) are one of the categories of top-level domains (TLDs) maintained by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) for use in the Domain Name System of the Internet. A top-level domain is the last level of ev ...
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.corp rejected gTLD
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.mail rejected gTLD
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.internal
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.home.arpa, a
special-use domain name
A special-use domain name is a domain name that is defined and reserved in the hierarchy of the Domain Name System of the Internet for special purposes. The designation of a reserved special-use domain is authorized by the Internet Engineering Ta ...
for non-unique use on residential networks
References
External links
.home ICANN Wiki
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Proposed top-level domains
Rejected proposed top-level domains