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A special-use domain name is a domain name that is defined and reserved in the hierarchy of the Domain Name System of the Internet for special purposes. The designation of a reserved special-use domain is authorized by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and executed, maintained, and published by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA).[1]
Reserved domain names
[edit]The following list comprises the domain names list by IANA in the category of special-use domain names.[2]
Domain | Purpose | Authority document |
---|---|---|
alt. | preventing name collisions with DNS | RFC 9476 |
6tisch.arpa. | IETF 6TiSH working group | RFC 9031 |
10.in-addr.arpa. | private network reverse mapping | RFC 6761 |
16.172.in-addr.arpa. | ||
17.172.in-addr.arpa. | ||
18.172.in-addr.arpa. | ||
19.172.in-addr.arpa. | ||
20.172.in-addr.arpa. | ||
21.172.in-addr.arpa. | ||
22.172.in-addr.arpa. | ||
23.172.in-addr.arpa. | ||
24.172.in-addr.arpa. | ||
25.172.in-addr.arpa. | ||
26.172.in-addr.arpa. | ||
27.172.in-addr.arpa. | ||
28.172.in-addr.arpa. | ||
29.172.in-addr.arpa. | ||
30.172.in-addr.arpa. | ||
31.172.in-addr.arpa. | ||
168.192.in-addr.arpa. | ||
170.0.0.192.in-addr.arpa. | NAT64 prefix discovery (RFC 7050) | RFC 8880 |
171.0.0.192.in-addr.arpa. | ||
ipv4only.arpa. | ||
254.169.in-addr.arpa. | Use in multicast DNS (mDNS) | RFC 6762 |
8.e.f.ip6.arpa. | ||
9.e.f.ip6.arpa. | ||
a.e.f.ip6.arpa. | ||
b.e.f.ip6.arpa. | ||
home.arpa. | Non-unique use on residential networks | RFC 8375 |
example. | documentation, tutorials, etc. | RFC 6761 |
example.com. | use in documentation, tutorials, testing | RFC 6761 |
example.net. | ||
example.org. | ||
invalid. | Avoidance of confusion and errors per RFC 2606 | RFC 6761 |
local. | Used for Multicast DNS | RFC 6762 (Section 3) |
localhost. | Reserved to avoidance of confusion and errors | RFC 6761 |
onion. | Anonymous onion service | RFC 7686 |
test. | Avoidance of confusion, allowing use for documentation and network testing | RFC 6761 |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ RFC 6761, S. Chesire, M. Krochmal, Special-Use Domain Names, IETF (February 2013)
- ^ "Special-Use Domain Names". Internet Assigned Number Authority. Retrieved 2020-06-16.