Never heard of the .example TLD, so thanks for that. However, an issue I see with it is that it doesn’t look like a domain name. Things that end in ‘.com’ are synonymous with domain names, regardless of how accurate that assumption really is. I think people are just starting to get familiar with these new alternative TLD names, but I can easily see business people not understanding ‘myco.example’, while they would understand ’example.com’.
No guarantee an .example TLD won't be created
Re:Example Domain
by magicconch on Monday December 20, 2021 @02:33PM
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The first line of the linked Wikipedia page states that it will never be created.
Ahem. Thank you.
Re:Example Domain
by renewiltord on Monday December 20, 2021 @02:56PM
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Literally the standard, my dude. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2606#section-2
Re:Example Domain
by throwawayboise on Monday December 20, 2021 @03:34PM
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Standards can change, but I guess if you allow for that, example.com is no better.
Doh! Thank you for the correction. I thought I had read that RFC
Well I am hilariously wrong. Thanks, renewiltord.
It'll never resolve to anything, and makes it really obvious the code is for testing or sample code.