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Since it died suck.com has been my canonical "poke the public-access WiFi gateway so it'll send me to its clickthrough agreement page" URL, since at least at on
by phs2501 11y ago
Since it died suck.com has been my canonical "poke the public-access WiFi gateway so it'll send me to its clickthrough agreement page" URL, since at least at one point that usually worked via DNS poisoning and I wanted to make sure it didn't poison a domain I actually wanted to visit for real. So I wound up seeing the page relatively often even recently. I was very sad when I saw it had turned into a parking spot sometime earlier this year. :/
- Natsu 11y agoI use asdf.com for that. It's just a simple HTML page without a lot of trash and there's nothing there that I care about visiting.
- 6502nerdface 11y agopurple.com is also good for this purpose (and others, like just seeing if you can get through a proxy or whatnot), and has been for decades.
- criddell 11y agoPurple.com is too limiting. I prefer Zombo.com. You can do anything there.
- pronoiac 11y agoHuh, the whois hasn't changed. I think Wired's shifted it to the "buy this domain" thing before, and shifted it back, so perhaps this isn't permanent?
- steveklabnik 11y agofoo.com user here. It's nice because it doesn't have an HTTPS redirect, so it always works.
- nitrogen 11y agohttp://example.com http://example.com seems like a good alternative.
- TazeTSchnitzel 11y agoWhy not example.com?
- boulos 11y agoFor all those suggesting that you migrate to example.com, I'll note that lots of ISPs and even companies hijack example.com directly. I ran into this running our little test suite that hit example.com to test that we were able to make http requests and get the right output. One day on a different network the test failed ;).