Ask HN: Have you ever visited example.com?

10 pointsby glaberfickenقبل 10 سنوات9 comments

Sorry if this seems a bit pointless, but for the first time just now I visited https://example.com/

Expected to find the typical "spammy" parked domain page, but instead learned this: http://www.iana.org/domains/reserved

Had no clue about reserved domain names before today! You?

9 comments

guessmynameقبل 10 سنوات

Also note that example.com has no MX records [1]:

    When an address such as [email protected] is used to demonstrate
    the sign-up process on a website, it directs the user to enter an
    actual email address at which they receive mail. Example.com is used
    in a generic and vendor-neutral manner.

The list of reserved TLDs is quite short actually [2] but thanks to this page I understood that ".dev" is a bad TLD that people enjoy(ed?) using for their test/local websites [3]. I have been using ".test" for all my offline projects for a couple of years now, and ".local" was specifically very helpful when I had to build a fake DNS server for a DNS manager that I was maintaining.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Example.com

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-level_domain#Reserved_doma...

[3] https://iyware.com/dont-use-dev-for-development/

ytjohnقبل 10 سنوات

I always use the example.net/example.com domains for my documentation. It drives me crazy when I see a tutorial using something they just made up like "myfakewebsite.com". Almost always, these lead to an actually registered domain like what OP was expecting to encounter.

SamReidHughesقبل 10 سنوات

I use it as a non-HTTPS site that I can use to log in to Starbucks Wifi.

bbcbasicقبل 10 سنوات

I use warriorforum.com for that

frantzmiccoliقبل 10 سنوات

Some domains are not to be sold, to avoid domain squatting and the kind of spammy websites you were expecting.

dansoقبل 10 سنوات

Yes, I use it as an example URL for tutorials or for testing out any HTTP-request-making code.

atsaloliقبل 10 سنوات

Sure. Example.com is an Internet standard. See http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2606.txt

27182818284قبل 10 سنوات

Yes, it is used a fair amount by web developers. Often I notice more junior developers making up their own things, but that leads to situations where your debug/private messages can be sent to a real person. I'll see things like [email protected] or [email protected], which is bad.

I believe the owner of null.com gets tons of emails from buggy OnStar notices to mom+pop websites.

zerognowlقبل 10 سنوات

Special Use for now, but this could change at the whim of standards bodies, and could become an ordinary domain. It certainly would be interesting to own such a domain and see what kind of emails you'd be getting.