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RFC 6761
Title: Special-Use Domain Names
Author: S. Cheshire, M. Krochmal
Status: Standards Track
Stream: IETF
Date: February 2013
Mailbox: cheshire@apple.com,
marc@apple.com
Pages: 13
Characters: 28862
Updates: RFC1918, RFC2606
I-D Tag: draft-cheshire-dnsext-special-names-03.txt
URL: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6761.txt
This document describes what it means to say that a Domain Name (DNS
name) is reserved for special use, when reserving such a name is
appropriate, and the procedure for doing so. It establishes an IANA
registry for such domain names, and seeds it with entries for some of
the already established special domain names.
This is now a Proposed Standard.
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