Understanding the Special-Purpose Domain Model
A special-purpose domain or forest is one that is set up to serve a specific need. For example, your organization might set up a special-purpose domain to house outside contractors or temporary workers to limit their exposure to the main AD DS forest. In addition, trust relationships could be established between this domain or other domains to allow for resource access.
Generally, there has to be a good reason before additional domains are deployed in AD DS. Overhead is increased with each domain that is added to an environment, and your logical network structure begins to look convoluted. However, in some unique cases, a special-purpose domain might become necessary.
Another possible use for a ...
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