On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 16:30 +0100, Joachim Breitner wrote: > But localhost does not seem the perfect choice either: > „The ".localhost" TLD has traditionally been statically defined in > host DNS implementations as having an A record pointing to the > loop back IP address and is reserved for such use. Any other use > would conflict with widely deployed code which assumes this use.“ > so I am not convinced. The other reserved TLDs are of course even worse > (.test, .invalid, .example). > > What do you think? I think the meaning "loop back IP address" is really just for the domain name (not the domain) "localhost." (as absolute DNS address).... Nobody said, that one cannot create subdomains thereof, or that such subdomains may not have other meanings.
Cheers, Chris.
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