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They should be using example.net. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Example.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Example.com

• danielweber 14y ago
  It depends what the purpose is. Maybe it's an anti-check on certain kinds of network connectivity. I can ping example.net and example.com.
• pronoiac 14y ago
  bogus.apple.com came to mind first for me. I guess if an ISP resolved it, there might be cookie leakage.
• brey 14y ago
  nope, example.com resolves just fine. apple's trying to test for non-existence. see .invalid - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.invalid http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.invalid
  • mtrimpe 14y ago
    Yup; example.com is defined as not available for email not as far as DNS is concerned.