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you can use .local also but go with best practices..<br />
Hope you gone through these articles.<br />
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<a href="https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc626155(v=ws.10).aspx" rel="ugc">https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc626155(v=ws.10).aspx</a><br />
<a href="https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/34981.active-directory-best-practices-for-internal-domain-and-network-names.aspx" rel="ugc nofollow">https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/34981.active-directory-best-practices-for-internal-domain-and-network-names.aspx</a>
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you can use .local also but go with best practices..
Hope you gone through these articles.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc626155(v=ws.10).aspx [https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc626155(v=ws.10).aspx]
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/34981.active-directory-best-practices-for-internal-domain-and-network-names.aspx [https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/34981.active-directory-best-practices-for-internal-domain-and-network-names.aspx]

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Appreciate the clear explanation from Cliff
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Appreciate the clear explanation from Cliff

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But this reminds me other question...the best practice is to use subdomain for your local domain as Cliff explained above...but is there any difference if I use 2nd level domain for my local domain - contoso.cz? Is there any advantage of using 3rd level domain - internal.contoso.cz?<br />
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Thank you guys :)<br />
<br />
Jiri
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But this reminds me other question...the best practice is to use subdomain for your local domain as Cliff explained above...but is there any difference if I use 2nd level domain for my local domain - contoso.cz? Is there any advantage of using 3rd level domain - internal.contoso.cz?

Thank you guys :)

Jiri

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Hello guys,<br />
<br />
I´m about setting up completely new internal domain and my question is...what internal domain name I should use?<br />
Why I shouldn´t use .local? I´ve red many articles but haven´t found proper answer why not use .local domain.<br />
<br />
Thanks a lot!<br />
<br />
Regards<br />
<br />
Jiri
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Hello guys,

I´m about setting up completely new internal domain and my question is...what internal domain name I should use?
Why I shouldn´t use .local? I´ve red many articles but haven´t found proper answer why not use .local domain.

Thanks a lot!

Regards

Jiri

Internal domain name

Active Directory (AD) is a Microsoft brand for identity-related capabilities. In the on-premises world, Windows Server AD provides a set of identity capabilities and services, and is hugely popular (88% of Fortune 1000 and 95% of enterprises use AD). This topic includes all things Active Directory including DNS, Group Policy, DFS, troubleshooting, ADFS, and all other topics under the Microsoft AD and identity umbrella.

Active Directory

The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical, globally distributed system responsible for associating the name of a computer, service or other resource into an IP address for connecting to the Internet or a private network. Most prominently, it translates domain names to the numerical IP addresses needed for the purpose of computer services and devices worldwide.

A domain controller is a server that responds to security authentication requests within a computer network domain. It is a network server that is responsible for allowing host access to domain resources. It authenticates users, stores user account information and enforces security policy for a domain