Good for the ex-owner.
Microsoft prevents Domain of Danger from falling into miscreants' paws by forking out cash for corp.com
Victims of early versions of Microsoft's Active Directory can breathe a sigh of relief: the software giant has snapped up the infamous corp.com domain. As noted by investigative blogger Brian Krebs, the big-hearted software giant stepped in after a private citizen put the domain up for sale. The sale potentially put hundreds …
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Thursday 9th April 2020 16:53 GMT J. Cook
I can understand it. a lot of AD instances didn't need or have internet access at the time, and using .local was an accepted practice. (yes, I am talking about win2K to server 2003R2/2008)
We recently did a windows 10 migration and implemented Skype for business on-prem; the contractor we hired to assist with both was gobsmacked that we were still using .local for our upns. (granted, it's a simple change to make, but there's some planning and forethought that has to happen before doing a bulk change like that.)
Besides, how many users are still logging in with DOMAIN\username or just username? More than you might think.
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Thursday 9th April 2020 07:52 GMT Anonymous Coward
I am old enough. Have been around since before NT4 days and have done a quite a few NT4 to AD migrations. The sheer fact that SBS used .local domains was always a clear signal to me that it is and always was a really bad practice.
I have made namespace mistakes. I used the clients internet domain name a couple of times instead of a sub domain before I knew any better, but never did a .local.
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Thursday 9th April 2020 09:13 GMT Anonymous Coward
I've done the whole AD-within-registered-domain a lot. And some of those businesses have then decided to change their company (or 'trading as') name and thus register a new domain, redirecting the website etc. It plays havoc with the AD setup. Having a unique domain for the AD saves a lot of hassle in those situations.
I don't believe there is any one 'best' arrangement to cover all situations.
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