and most people dont use it because its an incredibly poor name.

What, exactly, makes it poor? Be specific.

	▲	simondotau 27 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I will be very specific about why it is poor. The specific reason is my home network is not the Advanced Research Projects Agency.
	▲	GuB-42 32 minutes ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		- WTF is arpa? (in reality, I know, but there are better names than an obscure reference to internet prehistory) - it is a second-level domain, why? - 9 characters (home.arpa) is a lot I kind of understand the motivation, it is a "technical" domain since it doesn't represent something in the global DNS registry, so it gets the .arpa TLD. However, that's reasoning that it out of touch from normal users. Normal users don't want to be exposed to the technicalities of DNS when they enter something in the address bar, and "myserver.lan" is more meaningful than "myserver.home.arpa", and giving meaningful names is the whole point of DNS.
	▲	brookst 38 minutes ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		having two levels, for one. "arpa" not being remotely memorably to non-technical people, for another.
	▲	denkmoon 13 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		The character count. lan is 3 char, home.arpa is 9. Subjectively, tt is also aesthetically unappealing. I can't fucking _wait_ to type bender.home.arpa instead of bender.lan. Hyped.

lokoj 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Why don't they just put home.arpa or .arpa in their search path?