Dear community, have you ever needed a domain name as an example for documentation? What should you write there?
To solve this problem, the “Internet Assigned Numbers Authority” (IANA) has reserved the following domains:
- example.com
- example.net
- example.org
- example.edu
These domains may be used in documentation without prior approval from the IANA. If you call them up in the Internet browser, you will receive a suitable notice that these domains are in documentation for demonstration purposes only.
This means that example.com is also suitable for examples with email addresses that do not exist. In the Wiki, under the article “Email address“, you will find the email address john.smith@example.com. Anyone who sends an email to this recipient will receive a non-delivery message with the following notice:
Remote server returned '501 5.1.5 Recipient address reserved by RFC 2606
The answer contains a reference from the Request for Comments (RFC) 2606, which in turn deals precisely with the reserved domains.
So, once again learned something from the big IT world
Michael