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by OliverJones 1308 days ago
The internet has this kind of stuff too. Addresses "reserved for documentation" by IANA / IETF. I don't remember seeing them mentioned on-screen. I guess it's easy enough to register ghostbusters (dot) info or whatever.

example.com https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc2606/ 192.0.2.55 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc5737/

There must be layers upon layers of old special-case routing code in telco switches that makes it really hard to just start issuing those old 555 directory numbers to subscribers.