 Reminder that the only safe dummy domains to use are: - example.com And nowadays there's also a safe dummy TLD: .example These are safe because they are reserved by IANA as as special-use domain names for documentation purposes. Any other domain can be registered and as such should _never_ be used as a dummy domain for documentation or as eg. an example in default configs. 14 comments
@Datenegassie Since the entire .example TLD is safe to use, you can for sure use example.example in your docs 😅 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.example  @voxpelli also great domains to use for dummy email addresses for potentially spammy things! You can check whether they have robust data validity testing going on at the same time. @Timdmackey @NoraReed Yeah, I would not use that, it would only be safe if the owner of the zip TLD has said so, but much safer to go by what IANA has said themselves @Timdmackey @NoraReed Well, it could be worse, like if a very common TLD was the same as the file extension of an executable. Oh, wait 😅 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COM_file @voxpelli @Timdmackey @NoraReed didn’t the com file go out of regular use before the widespread adoption of the TLD? I seem to recall rarely seeing it by the windows 3.1 era: exe was the executable extension most commonly. Also, we were so naive back then! @linux_mclinuxface @Timdmackey @NoraReed Here’s another one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.app_(gTLD) What file extension does a normal MacOS application have? Yeah .app @voxpelli@mastodon.social Don't forget @voxpelli There's also .invalid and .test TLDs, the former for an invalid domain and the latter for testing. |
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@voxpelli Dang I was hoping there would be an example.example