[adrium]

Too bad, I tried to buy that domain some years ago as soon as I got my first fritzbox. Back then, I did not find a registrar and did not invest much time in finding one.

I am running my own DNS server and configured the fritz.box zone.

Very unprofessional of the vendor to assign a public domain. Good reminder to always use https://www.iana.org/domains/reserved and maybe https://www.theregister.com/2018/02/12/icann_corp_home_mail_...

They should just release a firmware update that replaces the domain suffix and ultimately to make it configurable.

[nebulous1]

I have to admit that I got stung when google released .dev as HSTS only, although that was only for local testing.

I'm surprised that this company didn't realise that this was problematic before this happened. Also, if the response in the article is actually their only one so far, that's a "I'll never touch this company again" response. If they deal with it properly then it's just a bug.

[lexicality]

it wasn't a public TLD until this year when it was registered to be a web3 thing

[lolinder]

It doesn't matter, it's never been a good idea to use a domain that isn't your own or a special-use domain. At some point this might have been a theoretical worry, but it was 13 years ago that ICANN started creating new TLDs by the dozen. There's very little excuse for not correcting this mistake for new hardware at some point in the past 13 years.