Why is there a full stop in an active directory name?

armatage · 8 Apr 2007 at 20:57

Simple question (like me

)

Why does a domain name in active directory have to have a full stop i.e. random.fred.
I understand if you have a child domain u have to have a full stop i.e. sales.randon.fred but why the .fred ???

Cheers

Baz · 8 Apr 2007 at 21:17

Wouldn't that be the top level domain? like support.microsoft.com ??

If you are doing local "internal" domains, I remember Microsoft suggesting doing something like domain.local

armatage · 8 Apr 2007 at 21:21

Baz said:
Wouldn't that be the top level domain? like support.microsoft.com ??

If you are doing local "internal" domains, I remember Microsoft suggesting doing something like domain.local

Just don't see the need when it come to a companies active directory domain

Baz · 8 Apr 2007 at 21:43

Just have sales.random then

oddjob62 · 8 Apr 2007 at 22:09

Baz said:
Wouldn't that be the top level domain? like support.microsoft.com ??[/i]

Actually a top level domain would be just com

I believe AD domains are given a name.something format simply to tie in with DNS domain naming format. As you may or may not know AD relies on DNS extensively.