Does .local exist?

Not really. No — .local is reserved for local networks (mDNS/Bonjour) and can never be a public TLD.

The full story

IETF RFC 6762 reserves .local for multicast DNS — the protocol your printer and smart speaker use to find each other. ICANN can never delegate it publicly; doing so would break local-network name resolution everywhere. If your NAS answers at something.local, that's mDNS working as intended.

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This answer is generated from the live IANA root zone list, not from vibes. If the DNS changes, this page changes.