samba - Oct 2025 - Active Directory Naming FAQ: .internal

Hi, I have a question.
In the wiki at

https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Active_Directory_Naming_FAQ,

it says that .internal should not be used because it could become a TLD 
in the future.
However, the issue was actually changed on July 29, 2024,

see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.internal

Shouldn't the text be amended and .internal listed as an option, since 
it was reserved precisely for such cases?

On Sat, 11 Oct 2025 15:02:37 +0200
Sascha Marcel Hacker via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> Hi, I have a question.
> In the wiki at
> 
> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Active_Directory_Naming_FAQ,
> 
> it says that .internal should not be used because it could become a
> TLD in the future.
> However, the issue was actually changed on July 29, 2024,
> 
> see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.internal
> 
> Shouldn't the text be amended and .internal listed as an option,
> since it was reserved precisely for such cases?
> 
> 
If you follow the trail from your link, you will find that it still
hasn't been added to the list of special-use domain names and the RFC
actually expired on the 4th September 2025. So while it is proposed to
make '.internal' non routable over the internet, this is still not the
case and it could still be registered (unlikely though this).

In my opinion (for what it is worth), the wiki page should stay as it
is, until such time as '.internal' is fully accepted as a non routable
TLD, similar to '.home.arpa'.

Rowland