I use domain.local in every internal namespace I setup. I don't know if that
is RFC compliant but it seems to be a widely used standard. I also host
internet services (email, web) on the same machine in some cases, and host a
standard primary DNS zone for the external namespace on that same server.

HTH,
J e r e m y

"John H" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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services are hosted offsite?

Thanks Jeremy. I was looking a for reason not to use the internal company.pri naming, but I'm glad it's common practice. I even ran all the unlikely scenerios through my head: i.e.: adding an exchange server to the domain, or even bringing the websites local, but I assumed that I could create aliases and forwarders for those. Thanks again

John