Re: [DNSOP] Tell me about the ISO 3166 user assigned two-letter codes and TLDs

[Viktor Dukhovni <[e-mail]>]

On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 11:27:20PM -0000, John Levine wrote:

> The codes AA, QM-QZ, XA-XZ, and ZZ are "user assigned" and will never
> be used for countries.  Last year Ed Lewis wrote an I-D proposing that
> XA-XZ be made private use and the rest future use, but as far as I can
> tell it never went anywhere.
> 
> I've been telling people that if they need a fake private TLD for their local
> network they should use one of those since it is exceedingly unlikely
> ever to collide with a real DNS name.  Am I right?

The the ".invalid" TLD is reserved, and has been used for private
naming of domains that are sure to not be real domains either
internally or on the public Internet.  I use:

  address.invalid - added to bare mailbox names in inbound external email.
  bcc.invalid - rewrite domain for (env recipient data) lossless Bcc copies of email
  discard.invalid - rewrite domain for addresses whose email gets dropped.
  local.invalid - rewrite domain for local delivery when no real domain is "local"
  ...

This is of course different from squatting on a TLD for naming
"real" private domains, and I see little justification for the
latter.  Real 2LDs, 3LDs, ... are cheap, and why not use those
instead?

And for documentation we of course have ".example", "example.net",
...

-- 
	Viktor.