Posted by Daniel R. Tobias on 08/20/06 16:29

Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
> _please_ stop using domain names like www.url.com if you don't _really_
> mean the real domain name! There's a good old convention (documented in
> RFC 2142) of using the top-level pseudo-domain "example" (e.g.,
> www.foo.example) or the second-level pseudo-domain "example.com" (e.g.,
> www.example.com) for dummy domain names in examples. They are guaranteed
> to be and remain dummy (never actually assigned).

And example.net and example.org, as well. (I believe "example" was also
held as a reserved name in the new TLDs, such as .info, but this was not
documented in the RFC.)

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