ICANN’s board has agreed to reserve the domain .INTERNET for internal use only, following a proposal from the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA).
Efforts to create a global domain for internal use have been underway since 2022, with ICANN directing a study on which domain to use. IANA summarized and proposed to the board last month.
This decision by the board reserves the domain .INTERNAL from entering the root domain in the future. On a technical level, organizations can configure the use of this domain privately, while also blocking queries for these domains from exiting, helping to reduce internal domain data leakage.
Critics argue that the domain .INTERNAL is too long and that some parts of it do not adequately convey meaning.
Source: ICANN
TLDR: ICANN reserves the .INTERNET domain for internal use only, following a proposal from IANA. Efforts are underway to create a global internal domain, with the recent decision to reserve .INTERNAL and configure it for private use to prevent data leakage.
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