Hacker News Reader

Comment by loupol | Hacker News Reader

I think I would have preferred .intra (Unless it's already used somehow ?).

Just 5 letters is less annoying to type repeatedly than .internal, while still conveying the overall purpose relatively well.

It might just be my laziness talking though.

View on HN

Counterpoint: .internal is much easier to understrand, .intra sounds like a reference to "intranet" as opposed to "internet". That's terminology networking people would use, but .internal is likely something both non-tech and tech people would intuitively understand.

I don't think `.internal` to be intuitively understandable either. In spite of other shortcomings, `.home` and `.corp` convey its private-use natures much better than `.internal`. (But they won't be suitable for anything other than that.)

You are not alone. Typing matters, 'internal' is just too long. I'd much prefer if they for instance would reserve '.lan' for internal usage.

Isn’t it possible to setup a default search domain. So most places you could just type something like https://site/ and your dns config knows to look for https://site.internal/

so, for example, an entirely internal zero trust network across all locations, should be .lan and not .internal?

.lan is so "back to office"

zero trust means no distinction between LAN and WAN, what do you mean?

I liked this idea at first, but the more I think about it the less I'm sure it works. Intra seems like a word which denotes physical boundaries to be within. It prefixes words like intramural, intramuscular, and intracellular. It's used for intranet as well, and while this usage of the prefix works, it has more broad use-cases than that. On the other hand, internal seems very clear and direct, and might suit a more digital, organizational context with less of a physical or spatial aspect to it.

Also, since intra is typically used as a prefix, it seems strange to use it bare. People familiar with intranets will probably make (or assume) the connection, but others might find it unclear while "internal" would likely not be.

Even so, I do prefer .intra for selfish reasons.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com