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https://ask.com/ https://ask.com/ is my go-to site that I know will be up, but I know will not be in my DNS or browser cache. I use it as my "wait, is my intern

https://ask.com/ https://ask.com/ is my go-to site that I know will be up, but I know will not be in my DNS or browser cache. I use it as my "wait, is my internet really working" check. I hope the domain lives on, and that I don't want to visit it.

NitpickLawyer 5mo ago
Yahoo.com should be your next one :)
- arm32 5mo ago
  I'd be willing to be ask.com will always resolve to a pingable IP address, that's a HOT domain name.
- qingcharles 5mo ago
  I've been using yahoo.com as my test domain since 1995...! I think I used microsoft.com before that, but yahoo is easier to type.
- Barbing 5mo ago
  Still feels like one big ad with an ad blocker. Not sure I’ll remember Perdu but that would be a nice fix. And maybe it connects to one domain instead of several. tl;dr ya
- einsteinx2 5mo ago
  Haha yep yahoo has been mine forever for the same reason stated by the OP
waynesonfire 5mo ago
Aol.com for me.
eresonance 5mo ago
Mine is https://www.red.com/ https://www.red.com/ Been using that for so many years now, probably 20ish? Oh wow, yup, I remember this page from 2006: https://web.archive.org/web/20060505141837/http://www.red.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20060505141837/http://www.red.co...
LeoPanthera 5mo ago
I have a tiny bash script that picks four random common words from the list of the 10000 most common words on Wikipedia and tries to ping <word>.com for each. It's quite rare to find an unregistered one.
- qingcharles 5mo ago
  I did this via some sort of bash + WHOIS call in about 1995 with the dictionary file I normally used for passwd cracking. There were a lot available then.
dlivingston 5mo ago
I use https://www.example.com https://www.example.com. I used to use Oprah.com; for some reason, that made me laugh.
jraph 5mo ago
https://perdu.com https://perdu.com works very well for this. It also still answers to http. Apparently it'll turn 30 years old in a few weeks [1]. It hasn't changed much if at all since its inception. Its very small size makes it perfect for curl perdu.com or when the connection is very bad. [1] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perdu.com https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perdu.com

NitpickLawyer 5mo ago

Yahoo.com should be your next one :)

arm32 5mo ago
I'd be willing to be ask.com will always resolve to a pingable IP address, that's a HOT domain name.
qingcharles 5mo ago
I've been using yahoo.com as my test domain since 1995...! I think I used microsoft.com before that, but yahoo is easier to type.
Barbing 5mo ago
Still feels like one big ad with an ad blocker. Not sure I’ll remember Perdu but that would be a nice fix. And maybe it connects to one domain instead of several. tl;dr ya
einsteinx2 5mo ago
Haha yep yahoo has been mine forever for the same reason stated by the OP

waynesonfire 5mo ago

Aol.com for me.

eresonance 5mo ago

Mine is https://www.red.com/ https://www.red.com/ Been using that for so many years now, probably 20ish? Oh wow, yup, I remember this page from 2006: https://web.archive.org/web/20060505141837/http://www.red.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20060505141837/http://www.red.co...

LeoPanthera 5mo ago

I have a tiny bash script that picks four random common words from the list of the 10000 most common words on Wikipedia and tries to ping <word>.com for each. It's quite rare to find an unregistered one.

qingcharles 5mo ago
I did this via some sort of bash + WHOIS call in about 1995 with the dictionary file I normally used for passwd cracking. There were a lot available then.

dlivingston 5mo ago

I use https://www.example.com https://www.example.com. I used to use Oprah.com; for some reason, that made me laugh.

jraph 5mo ago

https://perdu.com https://perdu.com works very well for this. It also still answers to http. Apparently it'll turn 30 years old in a few weeks [1]. It hasn't changed much if at all since its inception. Its very small size makes it perfect for curl perdu.com or when the connection is very bad. [1] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perdu.com https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perdu.com