Correcting legacy design mistakes
These kinds of situations are pricier for organizations. Most of the time, they end up restructuring domain infrastructures. Recently, I was talking to a company about a domain restructure. It's a multimillion dollar trading company with offices across the world. The problem was that when they designed the AD infrastructure a long time ago, they used a single label domain (SLD) name as the primary domain.
SLDs are domain names that don't have DNS suffixes such as .com, .org, or .net. After some time, they realized the limitations of SLDs and didn't fix them as that required some administrative changes. No one wanted to have the responsibility, either. The company kept growing, and instead of fixing the fundamental ...
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