{"id":93,"date":"2023-10-20T03:41:27","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T03:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/corp.ad\/?p=93"},"modified":"2023-12-01T13:28:16","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T13:28:16","slug":"why-is-your-domain-name-also-corp-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.corpad.org\/?p=93","title":{"rendered":"‘Corp.AD’ is frequently used Active Directory root domain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Traditionally, since the early days of Active Directory, Microsoft has been advising IT administrators to create a new root domain name starting with ‘corp’ as an example when setting up a new Active Directory server.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For instance, if you enter an invalid DNS name during the configuration process for Microsoft Windows’s Active Directory Domain Services, a pop-up alert will suggest using ‘corp.whatever.com’ as a naming convention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Considering that coming up with a unique and appropriate domain name can be challenging, using a more general term to indicate an Active Directory server might seem like a reasonable approach. However, ‘Active Directory server’ is quite lengthy for a domain name, and IT professionals often prefer using abbreviations like AD, DS, DC, DNS, OS, and so on. Therefore, whoever set up your network, possibly a long time ago, might have decided to use ‘corp.ad’ as your internal network root domain, combining ‘corp’ from the tradition and ‘ad’ from Active Directory. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since Active Directory doesn’t require the use of an officially registered Internet domain name for a private network’s root domain, your network is likely using a private ‘corp.ad’ domain, possibly since the time your IT administrator chose to implement it for the reasons mentioned. It may be, or may not be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Traditionally, since the early days of Active Directory, Microsoft has been advising IT administrators to create a new root domain name starting with ‘corp’ as an example when setting up a new Active Directory server. For instance, if you enter an invalid DNS name during the configuration process for Microsoft Windows’s Active Directory Domain Services, … Continue reading “‘Corp.AD’ is frequently used Active Directory root domain”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[15,5,14,16],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","tag-active-directory","tag-corp-ad","tag-domain-name-collision","tag-root-domain-name"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corpad.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corpad.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corpad.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corpad.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corpad.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.corpad.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":292,"href":"https:\/\/www.corpad.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions\/292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corpad.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corpad.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corpad.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}