EXE) be used to start installs.Cmdb and easily referenced.Taking all of that into account, weve developed some best practices that should work for most small-to-medium businesses naming their own hardware.When the bootstrap utility (setup.Standardized cname Structure, start with your registered domain, and segment each piece of additional information as a proper subdomain going down from there.These 1633 words were chosen very specifically to be short (4-7 letters phonetically different from one another, easy to understand over the phone, and also recognizable internationally. Convenience Names Beyond the standardized structure, you may want additional cname records for convenience words like webmail, cmdb, puppet, etc.