/** * Special-use domain names from the IANA "Special-Use Domain Names" registry: * the authoritative list, created by RFC 6761 and maintained as new RFCs add to * it: https://www.iana.org/assignments/special-use-domain-names/ * Snapshot: 2026-05-24. (RFC 6761 is not obsoleted; draft-hoffman-rfc6761bis * proposes to retire its prose but keep this registry, so the registry is the * source of truth; re-sync this list against it.) * * These names never correspond to a public registration, yet neither * `isIcann` nor `isPrivate` marks one as special-use: most are absent from the * Public Suffix List (so `a.test` looks like a registrable domain), and the * few that are listed (`onion`, `home.arpa`) appear there as ordinary ICANN * suffixes. `isSpecialUse` is the single signal that covers them all. * * Per the registry and RFC 6761 ("and any names falling within these domains"), * the designation covers each listed name AND all of its sub-domains. DNS labels * are case-insensitive (RFC 4343); `hostname` is expected to be already * lower-cased and trailing-dot-stripped, as produced by `extractHostname`, the * same normalization the Public-Suffix-List lookup relies on. * * Two groups of registry entries are intentionally excluded: the numeric * reverse-DNS delegation zones (`10.in-addr.arpa`, the `*.ip6.arpa` ranges, …), * which are reverse-DNS PTR zones rather than hostnames and whose parents * (`in-addr.arpa`/`ip6.arpa`) are already in the Public Suffix List; and the * deprecated `eap-noob.arpa` entry. */ const SPECIAL_USE_DOMAINS: readonly string[] = [ 'test', // RFC 6761 'localhost', // RFC 6761 'invalid', // RFC 6761 'example', // RFC 6761 'example.com', // RFC 6761 'example.net', // RFC 6761 'example.org', // RFC 6761 'local', // RFC 6762 (mDNS) 'onion', // RFC 7686 (Tor) 'alt', // RFC 9476 'home.arpa', // RFC 8375 'ipv4only.arpa', // RFC 8880 'resolver.arpa', // RFC 9462 'service.arpa', // RFC 9665 '6tisch.arpa', // RFC 9031 'eap.arpa', // RFC 9965 ]; /** * Return `true` if `hostname` is, or is a sub-domain of, a special-use domain * (see the registry note above). Expects an already-normalized `hostname`. */ export default function isSpecialUse(hostname: string): boolean { for (const name of SPECIAL_USE_DOMAINS) { // Match on a label boundary: `hostname` is either exactly `name` or ends // with `.name` (so `latest` is not matched by `test`, nor `myexample.com` // by `example.com`). if ( hostname.endsWith(name) && (hostname.length === name.length || hostname.charCodeAt(hostname.length - name.length - 1) === 46) /* '.' */ ) { return true; } } return false; }