.local - WikipediaThe domain name .local is a special-use domain name reserved by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) so that it may not be installed as a top-level domain in the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet. As such it is similar to the other special domain names, such as .localhost.[1] However, .local has since been designated for use in link-local networking, in applications of multicast DNS (
