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To whoever owns test@test.com, I apologise.

by bencoder 13y ago

psychometry 13y ago
You should be using http://example.com http://example.com
ph0rque 13y ago
At our firm, Testie McTesterson (test@example.com) is almost a real person.
- pm 13y ago
  Perhaps I could arrange a date for yours and our local Facebook tester, Testina McTestiburger. I'm sure they'd get along famously.
IsaacL 13y ago
Pity the poor foo at http://bar.com/ http://bar.com/.
- dkarl 13y ago
  If you're doing web development and try to go to localhost:8080 while your server isn't up, Chrome offers to take you to the blog of a very clever person who is apparently a Chinese-speaking woman: http://localhost-8080.com/ http://localhost-8080.com/ Hitting the "Translate" button in Chrome yields a tantalizing hint of blog entries that might be very interesting, but then again might just be mundane stuff spiced up by Google's quirky attempt at translation. Unfortunately, the translation is too garbled to follow in more than an impressionistic way.
jes5199 13y ago
a friend of mine had a web site that they were about to demo to a potential client, and it had some CMS sort of capabilities, and they had filled it with lorem-ipsum type content, and "fake" urls: they just typed in a bunch of Xs. for example "xxxxx.xxx" ... of course, .xxx is a real TLD now, and all the x* sites have been squatted by porn. They caught it 30 minutes before the demo - my friend almost choking on his coffee when he absentmindedly clicked one of the links - and they had to search and replace the whole database to be "example.com" everywhere.
- makomk 13y ago
  Interestingly, xxxxx.xxx hasn't just been squatted by some porn provider. It appears to be owned and run by ICM Registry LLC, the registry for .xxx and the company which convinced ICANN to allow them to run the TLD. So basically, the company that lobbied for and created .xxx didn't just know that people were going to squat xxxxx.xxx domain names used as placeholders, they actually got in on the act themselves before anyone else could.

To whoever owns test@test.com, I apologise.

psychometry 13y ago

You should be using http://example.com http://example.com

ph0rque 13y ago

At our firm, Testie McTesterson (test@example.com) is almost a real person.

pm 13y ago
Perhaps I could arrange a date for yours and our local Facebook tester, Testina McTestiburger. I'm sure they'd get along famously.

IsaacL 13y ago

Pity the poor foo at http://bar.com/ http://bar.com/.

dkarl 13y ago
If you're doing web development and try to go to localhost:8080 while your server isn't up, Chrome offers to take you to the blog of a very clever person who is apparently a Chinese-speaking woman: http://localhost-8080.com/ http://localhost-8080.com/ Hitting the "Translate" button in Chrome yields a tantalizing hint of blog entries that might be very interesting, but then again might just be mundane stuff spiced up by Google's quirky attempt at translation. Unfortunately, the translation is too garbled to follow in more than an impressionistic way.

jes5199 13y ago

a friend of mine had a web site that they were about to demo to a potential client, and it had some CMS sort of capabilities, and they had filled it with lorem-ipsum type content, and "fake" urls: they just typed in a bunch of Xs. for example "xxxxx.xxx" ... of course, .xxx is a real TLD now, and all the x* sites have been squatted by porn. They caught it 30 minutes before the demo - my friend almost choking on his coffee when he absentmindedly clicked one of the links - and they had to search and replace the whole database to be "example.com" everywhere.

makomk 13y ago
Interestingly, xxxxx.xxx hasn't just been squatted by some porn provider. It appears to be owned and run by ICM Registry LLC, the registry for .xxx and the company which convinced ICANN to allow them to run the TLD. So basically, the company that lobbied for and created .xxx didn't just know that people were going to squat xxxxx.xxx domain names used as placeholders, they actually got in on the act themselves before anyone else could.