You can buy a cheap domain to make sure no one else uses it and just roll it on your lan. Throw some DNS ACME challenges and you have valid certificates too.
You can buy a cheap domain to make sure no one else uses it and just roll it on your lan. Throw some DNS ACME challenges and you have valid certificates too.
Why should I have to purchase something (yearly subscription, mind) in order to access something that is potentially half a meter away?
This is not how anything should work.
you dont have to. .internal is fine.
I do it for the LE certificate. But "cheap" is subjective. Domain registration and management should not be as expensive as it is. Nothing the registrar or registry does could be worth $8/10/200 a year with guaranteed 5-10% price increases every year. It is a grift.