[fudgeonastick]

https://ask.com/ is my go-to site that I know will be up, but I know will not be in my DNS or browser cache. I use it as my "wait, is my internet really working" check.

I hope the domain lives on, and that I don't want to visit it.

[jraph]

https://perdu.com works very well for this. It also still answers to http.

Apparently it'll turn 30 years old in a few weeks [1]. It hasn't changed much if at all since its inception.

Its very small size makes it perfect for curl perdu.com or when the connection is very bad.

[1] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perdu.com

[NitpickLawyer]

Yahoo.com should be your next one :)

[arm32]

I'd be willing to be ask.com will always resolve to a pingable IP address, that's a HOT domain name.

[qingcharles]

I've been using yahoo.com as my test domain since 1995...! I think I used microsoft.com before that, but yahoo is easier to type.

[einsteinx2]

Haha yep yahoo has been mine forever for the same reason stated by the OP

[Barbing]

Still feels like one big ad with an ad blocker. Not sure I’ll remember Perdu but that would be a nice fix. And maybe it connects to one domain instead of several.

tl;dr ya

[eresonance]

Mine is https://www.red.com/

Been using that for so many years now, probably 20ish? Oh wow, yup, I remember this page from 2006:

https://web.archive.org/web/20060505141837/http://www.red.co...

[dlivingston]

I use https://www.example.com. I used to use Oprah.com; for some reason, that made me laugh.

[LeoPanthera]

I have a tiny bash script that picks four random common words from the list of the 10000 most common words on Wikipedia and tries to ping <word>.com for each.

It's quite rare to find an unregistered one.

[qingcharles]

I did this via some sort of bash + WHOIS call in about 1995 with the dictionary file I normally used for passwd cracking. There were a lot available then.

[waynesonfire]

Aol.com for me.