Intranet domain name

Question

I have setup an intranet with my organization. Is it possible to have the domain companyName.home? I'm a complete newbie to this and I don't know what the limitations are, normally, for intranet domain names.

Thanks!

Solution

There are 2 suggestions on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-level_domain#Pseudo-domains - .site and .internal, but there is no real standard yet.

Comments

[Admin]

A similar question about "internal" domains: serverfault.com/questions/270712/…

[Admin]

.local is used by the zeroconf protocol.

[Admin]

there you go! ha ha I was just having a read over on server fault! I will stick to .internal then in future I guess.. I have worked at a few places with .local interesting

[Admin]

Thanks. I haven't seen my company use .local normally infrastructure sets us up with server names such as bg00web0001 so I type in the browser bg00web0001 and it takes me to the intranet I setup. I would like to simplify it and ask if they could do something like companyName so its companyName Do you think that's possible?

[Admin]

If you have an IT department or someone who looks after your dns server ask them to set up a cname (again i am not an expert) and that can mean that you just type "intranet/" in the browser and go straight to it.. though let me check serverfault again ;-)

[Admin]

note bg00web0001 is the host name, but it will have a fully qualified domain name FQDN if its on a domiain e.g. bg00web0001.companyName.something..