RFC 6761: Special-Use Domain Names

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…

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Outgoing relationships (11 related RFCs)

Updates, Informative reference — RFC 1918: Address Allocation for Private Internets
Updates, Informative reference — RFC 2606: Reserved Top Level DNS Names
Normative reference — RFC 2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
Normative reference — RFC 5226: Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs
Normative reference — RFC 1035: Domain names - implementation and specification
Normative reference — RFC 1034: Domain names - concepts and facilities
Informative reference — RFC 4862: IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration
Informative reference — RFC 1112: Host extensions for IP multicasting
Informative reference — RFC 3927: Dynamic Configuration of IPv4 Link-Local Addresses
Informative reference — RFC 5771: IANA Guidelines for IPv4 Multicast Address Assignments
Informative reference — RFC 5735: Special Use IPv4 Addresses

Incoming relationships (14 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 6762: Multicast DNS
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9462: Discovery of Designated Resolvers
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9031: Constrained Join Protocol (CoJP) for 6TiSCH
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7686: The ".onion" Special-Use Domain Name
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8880: Special Use Domain Name 'ipv4only.arpa'
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9476: The .alt Special-Use Top-Level Domain
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9704: Establishing Local DNS Authority in Validated Split-Horizon Environments
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9874: Best Practices for Deletion of Domain and Host Objects in the Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8244: Special-Use Domain Names Problem Statement
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8023: Report from the Workshop and Prize on Root Causes and Mitigation of Name Collisions
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9665: Service Registration Protocol for DNS-Based Service Discovery
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9498: The GNU Name System
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9965: The eap.arpa. Domain and Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) Provisioning
Informatively referenced by — RFC 10023: The "_for-sale" Underscored and Globally Scoped DNS Node Name