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Until it doesn't.

And having a website on the domain.tld adds shenanigans.

One of many examples I had is when Outlook loses connection to Exchange (eg S2S VPN is down) it starts autodiscovery process, hits domain.tld (because users have email@domain.tld, duh) and complains to user with a scary messages (which are also blocks the process until the users hit something). Which is totally understandable, because the website is on some public hosting, so CN in the cert is from the public host at best and != domain.tld.

Using corp.domain.tld or even techdomain.tld solves this totally and also let you use public certs (LE in the current era) even on the 'local' side of the network.




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