Windows 10: Windows Server 2016 - Setup Local Domain Controller

Regarding the domain controller name, if I buy myself a domain,mydomain.info. Is it better if I name the root domain for mydomain.info or should I still go for mydomain.local? Or is it better if I call it ad.mydomain.info.

Nice tutorial btw!

 

Hi Bcil, welcome to Ten Forums.

A local domain is as name says local. It should not be named as any existing domain. If you have a site up and running on http://MyExtremelyGoodBusiness.com, you should not use that name for your local domain.

In fact, you should not even use official top level domains in the name of your local domain (.com, .net, .org, .co.uk, .fr and so on). You can use pretty much anything else you want to; I used to use .home on my local domains but as .homes (for real estate agents) was accepted to the list of official top level domains I wanted to change mine as it was in my opinion too close.

Check this list, do not use anything on it: List of Internet top-level domains - Wikipedia

 

Aha I see, I thought previously that if we had bought a domain then we were supposed to use that, but now i know better, hehe thanks