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by cdowns 3446 days ago
Didn't realize that about example.com. TIL!
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wyldfire 3446 days ago
It's reserved for the purpose of documentation/illustrations (especially RFCs themselves) without fear of changes/invalid domains/directing mass traffic. It's also useful for establishing an idiom for those RFC examples.

[1] https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2606.txt

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Example.com

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