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Curious that example.com et al actually resolve and have IP addresses even though they are IANA reserved domains for documentation, I would have thought they wo
by fulafel 4y ago
Curious that example.com et al actually resolve and have IP addresses even though they are IANA reserved domains for documentation, I would have thought they won't result in delivering requests over the network.
- rushikesh98 4y agoA non-working example would be a bad example.
- jwilk 4y agoThe existence of the website is documented in the RFC: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6761#section-6.5 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6761#section-6.5 > All example names are registered in perpetuity to IANA: […] > IANA currently maintains a web server providing a web page explaining the purpose of example domains.
- fulafel 4y agoYep. That RFC also is interesting because the older RFC it supersedes recommended using .example foremost, having the example second-level domains in a more side note status, and that is absent from the newer (2013) RFC.
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- jsmith99 4y agoexample.com is actually useful for manual connectivity checks because it doesn't redirect http to https.
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