Icann chooses .internal as a new top-level domain name for internal networks

ICANN has chosen .internal as the new top-level domain name for internal networks. The organization is now asking for feedback on this decision. It is not yet clear when the domain name will be put into use.

With this development, users will eventually be able to access their router, for example, by navigating to .internal. Such a TLD would not appear in the public DNS anyway. In a document the domain name organization details that, as usual, the public has the opportunity to respond to the choice, after which ICann will finally decide whether the domain name will be put into use.

A separate committee of ICANN, the Security and Stability Advisory Committee, has been considering since 2020 what the new extension for internal networks should be, according to details The Register. The committee considered 35 different TLDs, including .domain, .private, and .internal. She rejected the first mentioned top-level domain name because the term would not properly signal that it was a private connection. She rejected the name .private because the name “could unintentionally create the implication of an increased degree of privacy” and because the term had conflicting meanings when translated into other languages.