What to use as a domain, if you dont own a public one

[davidh_R]

What should you use as your domain name (zone name) for dns, if you dont actually own a public domain name? are there any reserved private domains, like there are for ip addresses(ex 192.x.x.x)? Im just setting up a server to play around with and im at a loss for what to use.

i found this http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2606.html

but im not sure if these domains are only for documentation purposes, or if they are actual functional addresses, within a private network, just not routable.

 

[LordOfLA]

just use one with a bogues tld eg. davidh-private.lan

 

[Electronic Punk]

Yeah, you can pretty much put what you like if it is private.

 

[Geffy]

I used to use something like .local, now I use .streetname