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Re:Example Domain by tomcam on Monday December 20, 2021 @02:23PM (#29628938)
No guarantee an .example TLD won't be created
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Re:Example Domain by magicconch on Monday December 20, 2021 @02:33PM (#29629058)
The first line of the linked Wikipedia page states that it will never be created.
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Re:Example Domain by tomcam on Monday December 20, 2021 @11:44PM (#29633979)
Ahem. Thank you.
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Re:Example Domain by renewiltord on Monday December 20, 2021 @02:56PM (#29629387)
Literally the standard, my dude. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2606#section-2
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Re:Example Domain by throwawayboise on Monday December 20, 2021 @03:34PM (#29629950)
Standards can change, but I guess if you allow for that, example.com is no better.
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Re:Example Domain by tomcam on Monday December 20, 2021 @11:43PM (#29633976)
Doh! Thank you for the correction. I thought I had read that RFC
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Re:Example Domain by tomcam on Monday December 20, 2021 @11:45PM (#29633989)
Well I am hilariously wrong. Thanks, renewiltord.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29629387

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