Active Directory Forest root domain name

Hi MSFT Community!
I've been away from AD for a little while and I'm wondering: is company.lan or company.local still a current/recommended practice for instantiating a new root Active Directory domain for a growing company?
I would rather you to stick with ad.company.com where the company.com is the website. Actually I prefer to use a child domain for AD tasks.
Why you shouldn't use .local in your Active Directory domain name.
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Sourashree

SCCM 2012 AD Publishing in a Single Forest Multiple Domains

Hi there,
Let me explain the situation first so that you get the idea. We have a single forest, multiple child domains AD environment. For some reasons each domain is being managed separately by their geographic location IT.
Forest has been extended for SCCM by the site who holds the forest root domain. Since everyone wants to manage their own domain and systems, each child domain have their own primary site server.
In one of the domains I have installed brand new SCCM 2012 R2. I haven't done anything yet, havent turned on any discovery except Heartbeat. Now I see one device, which belongs to another domain with totally separate IP address, shows in my SCCM site. I dont
know why.
From here question arises for me. Correct me if I'm wrong and please advice what to do domain/forest wide.
1. System Container is needed in each child domain, not in the forest, right?
2. Where does/should each SCCM primary site publish information; in each domain or in the forest root domain?
3. Under Administration > Overview > Site Configuration > Sites > Properties > Publishing I see forest root domain name and its checked.
Under Administration > Overview > Hierarchy Configuration > Active Directory Forests > Properties > Publishing my site is checked and its the only one in there. In that same window I went ahead and specified my own domain hoping
to cure the possible problem.
So, why would that one device show up in this site? I have disabled Heartbeat together with other discoveries for now till I make everything ready.
Thanks for your help in advance.

1. Under Administration > Overview > Site Configuration > Sites > Properties > Publishing If I uncheck forest root domain will devices on my child domain still be able to find my site server?
2. Under Administration > Overview > Hierarchy Configuration > Active Directory Forests > Properties > Publishing my site is checked and its the only one in there. In that same window I went ahead and specified my own domain
hoping to cure the possible problem. Is this a good practice?
3. "When clients look for ConfigMgr info, they use GC lookups meaning they return objects from every System Management container in the forest." So, which one do clients choose and how?
4. "For that one device, have you opened its properties and examined it?" Yes, what abou it? Its found based on Heartbeat Discovery agent (when heartbeat was enabled).
5. "Have you reviewed the boundaries and boundary groups set up for site assignment?" Yes, as I mentioned this device belongs to different domain and totally outside of my AD site and SCCM boundaries.
This is fresh install and not in production yet. I have disabled Heartbeat temporarily so that I fix this problem. I will enable it after.

Active Directory Forest root domain name

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