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Example Domain
- ezekiell 5y agoI would to know how much traffic this website receives
- seqizz 5y agoI also want to know how many secrets just flow in
- kijeda 5y agoIt was about 80Mbps earlier this year: https://twitter.com/kjd/status/1405887961791569924 https://twitter.com/kjd/status/1405887961791569924
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- addingnumbers 5y agoFor a while my Amazon Alexa gadget was hitting three domains several times an hour, example.com/net/org. I looked with tcpdump and verified it was following every lookup with an HTTP get. I only left the Alexa on for a week while I was recovering from eye surgery, but it made those the top three most frequently queried domains for that whole month on my pi-hole charts. Presumably it was some connectivity test, but all three of those domains were hosted at the same IP at the time. Which would defeat the point of using three domains, if the goal was to reduce the possibility of one outage causing a false negative on the test.
- intosi 5y agoI forgot I had it installed on my phone, but clicking the link opened, to my surprise, the Simply Piano app. Why you'd associate your app with that domain for legitimate purposes is a bit of a mystery to me.
- smashed 5y agoProbably by copy pasting example code?
- pjerem 5y agoThat.
- lgats 5y agoiOS or Android?
- BillinghamJ 5y agoIsn't that meant to be cryptographically paired? Apps shouldn't be able to intercept random domain names whenever they want You'd need the right info at URLs like: https://example.com/apple-app-site-association https://example.com/apple-app-site-association https://example.com/.well-known/apple-app-site-association https://example.com/.well-known/apple-app-site-association https://example.com/.well-known/assetlinks.json https://example.com/.well-known/assetlinks.json (Android) (which obviously don't exist for this domain)
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- jaffacakes 5y agoThis shouldn't be possible on Android. Google requires apps capturing http/s deeplinks verify ownership of the URI.[1] They can accept any other schema declared in their manifest otherwise. Example code would seem most plausible, but I can't see how it would work. [1] https://developer.android.com/training/app-links/verify-site-associations https://developer.android.com/training/app-links/verify-site...
- kevingadd 5y agoTwitter deeplinks open the third-party Twitter client I have installed (Fenix) on Android for me.
- pupppet 5y agoGood on whomever for making it a public service rather than a crap site filled with ads.
- nness 5y agoThe advantage of example.com is that its still served over HTTP, which is very helpful if you are trying to force a redirect for wifi login or 'out of quota' on a phone plan.
- BenjiWiebe 5y agoLet me introduce you to neverssl.com!
- shakna 5y agoThe difference being, example.com is run by IANA [0] and guaranteed by them, whereas neverssl is just a kind-hearted soul, and may one day resolve to something else. [0] https://www.iana.org/domains/reserved https://www.iana.org/domains/reserved
- jen729w 5y agoThe other difference being that neverssl.com does a bit more as it immediately redirects you to a unique subdomain, ensuring that any caching that your browser is trying is subverted. Sure, it might go away one day. Until it does, it’s the best solution to this problem.
- aleksi 5y agoThat page says that example.com is registered by IANA. It makes no promises about it being plaintext HTTP only or even that HTTP service is available.
- roywiggins 5y agoYeah, but neverssl.com could expire and start serving porn (or whatever), but we can be pretty sure example.com won't.
- shakna 5y agoOnly somewhat. > 2. Application software SHOULD NOT recognize example names as special and SHOULD use example names as they would other domain names. > 3. Name resolution APIs and libraries SHOULD NOT recognize example names as special and SHOULD NOT treat them differently. Name resolution APIs SHOULD send queries for example names to their configured caching DNS server(s). > 6. DNS server operators SHOULD be aware that example names are reserved for use in documentation. You are guaranteed to be able to try and resolve the domain, which should generally be enough for the crappy man-in-the-middle systems to work. However, example.com should never suddenly start serving you a cryptominer, etc. Which is the larger concern.
- entropie 5y agoI wonder how they managed to get a horizontal scrollbar. Edit: its a chrome extenstion I use.
- folkrav 5y agoI don't get a horizontal scrollbar unless I resize the viewport to <159px wide.
- entropie 5y agoI use brave. But you are right. Its not really the fault of the markup of the side. I use "Definer" chrome plugin [1]. That injects a absolute positioned #definer-bubble div with width:100% that does not work well with sites css thats sets a margin for every div. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/definer-advanced-popup-di/noagjioaihamoljcbelhdlldnmlgnkon https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/definer-advanced-p...
- oftenwrong 5y agoIANA also reserves TLDs like '.test' and '.example' as well as some IDN equivalents. https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2606.html https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2606.html https://www.iana.org/domains/reserved https://www.iana.org/domains/reserved
- colmmacc 5y agoThere are also documentation and example IP prefixes! 192.0.2.0/24 and 2001:db8::/32.
- santiagobasulto 5y agoAnd .local, right?
- lioeters 5y agoActually, no. According to RFC 2606 - Reserved Top Level DNS Names, the following four domain names are reserved: .test .example .invalid .localhost
- anonu 5y agoOnly took 12 years of posting this to get a decent discussion going: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=example.com https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=example.com
- hereforphone 5y agoThere are several domains dedicated for example and special purposes. This is just one. https://www.iana.org/assignments/special-use-domain-names/special-use-domain-names.xhtml https://www.iana.org/assignments/special-use-domain-names/sp... https://www.iana.org/domains/reserved https://www.iana.org/domains/reserved
- psim1 5y ago$ dig example.com. mx +short 0 . It has an interesting MX record. I wonder what this does? Specifically, what should a mail agent do when the MX record points to "." ?
- oftenwrong 5y agoThat's a "null MX", indicating that the domain does not accept mail. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7505 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7505
- psim1 5y agoThanks! That RFC is new to me.
- Lightbody 5y agoThis is a great reminder that when working with test data for stuff like email delivery, always use example.com (or a few other similar TLDs) and not stuff like "test.com" or "acme.com" or "dummyuser.com". I see this all the time by devs and they don't understand the risk and why example.com was put into the standards.
- linuxlizard 5y agoI have a .com domain with 'test' in the name. I was mildly DNS spammed because Microsoft admins would create that thing with test in the name. I'd get 10-20 DNS packets a day. I moved it to an external DNS provider just to give my logs a break.
- mathfailure 5y ago20 packets a day? Phew! So you barely survived the DDoS!
- Uehreka 5y agoAt least you’re not a sysadmin for Contoso, those folks must have their hands full.
- psadauskas 5y agoI always use `myco.example` for testing requests and emails, as well as documentation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.example It'll never resolve to anything, and makes it really obvious the code is for testing or sample code.
- macintux 5y agoReminds me of the corp.com saga. https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/04/microsoft-buys-corp-com-so-bad-guys-cant/ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/04/microsoft-buys-corp-com-...
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- politelemon 5y agoThe web logs on example.com must be a treasure trove of interesting traffic, and also a security risk in some ways, depending on who has been testing with it.