The name internal is reserved by

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as a domain name for private application use that may not be installed as a

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in the

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(DNS) of the

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. the domain has not been standardized by the

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(IETF), though an

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describing the TLD has been submitted.

History

In 2013, RFC 6762 mentioned the use of unregistered TLDs for private internal networks, and while recommending against them, included ''.internal'' among other unregistered TLDs that had been in common use on private networks. Later, in 2017, an Internet-Draft ''draft-wkumari-dnsop-internal-00'' proposed reserving the use of ''.internal'' for "names which do not have meaning in the global context but do have meaning in a context internal to their network", and for which the RFC 6761 reserved names are semantically inappropriate. The draft expired on January 3, 2018. On January 24, 2024, ICANN opened submissions for public comment on a proposed top-level domain reserved for "private-use and internal network applications".

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and

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both submitted comments in favor of the TLD. ICANN stated that the adoption of a domain explicitly reserved for internal network usage would help minimize usage of uncoordinated and

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TLDs, such as ''.corp'', ''.home'', ''.lan'', and ''.private''. On July 29, 2024, ICANN formally accepted and reserved ''.internal'' for private-use applications. An Internet-Draft, ''draft-davies-internal-tld-00'', was made on August 2 describing the reservation of ''.internal''. It identified the risk of choosing unassigned TLDs that could "later appear in the global DNS thereby causing name collisions and undefined behavior for users."

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