On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 07:48:48PM -0700, Chris Buxton <cbuxton at menandmice.com> wrote a message of 30 lines which said: > 1. Microsoft recommends .local as a private TLD ... > 2. Apple defined the zeroconf TLD as being .local. Exactly my point. There is no official reservation, only proprietary rules by some private corporations.