[psadauskas]

I always use `myco.example` for testing requests and emails, as well as documentation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.example

It'll never resolve to anything, and makes it really obvious the code is for testing or sample code.

[orev]

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’.

[tomcam]

No guarantee an .example TLD won't be created

[magicconch]

The first line of the linked Wikipedia page states that it will never be created.

[tomcam]

Ahem. Thank you.

[renewiltord]

Literally the standard, my dude. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2606#section-2

[throwawayboise]

Standards can change, but I guess if you allow for that, example.com is no better.

[tomcam]

Doh! Thank you for the correction. I thought I had read that RFC

[tomcam]

Well I am hilariously wrong. Thanks, renewiltord.

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