ICANN proposes .INTERNAL, a new TLD available for internal use but never plumbed into the global DNS, taking on the same role as 192.168.x.x IPv4 bloc (Simon Sharwood/The Register)

Simon Sharwood / The Register:

ICANN proposes .INTERNAL, a new TLD available for internal use but never plumbed into the global DNS, taking on the same role as 192.168.x.x IPv4 bloc  —  The plan is to keep the world at bay by never recording it in the DNS root – like may already do with a subdomain for an intranet