Example.com Has Changed

An anonymous reader writes "The familiar example.com domain, reserved for private testing, has been updated. Visiting the domain in a web browser no longer displays any content; instead, visitors are redirected to an explanatory page on IANA's website at iana.org/domains/example/. Other example domains such as example.net are also affected. Is this a bad change? Will the redirect cause problems for anybody?"

Comments

For documentation purposes

[Anonymous Coward]

The domains are designed to be used as examples in free text, not to be visited. Not to be pinged, scraped, tracerouted or anything else that involved actually accessing them via the Internet.

So how does "Will the redirect cause problems for anybody?" make any sense?

Re:For documentation purposes

[Anonymous Coward]

I suppose the big difference would be for ISPs and anyone else running DNS servers that redirect failed lookups to their own pages, this would no longer be useful as a test to see if your dns server will actually return NXDOMAIN for anything.

Re:For documentation purposes

[Anonymous Coward]

It doesn't make sense, but it's probably a requirement that most inane non-issue articles be posted with a leading question that stirs up discussion where little is needed and controversy where none exists.

you might have bigger problem

[JonySuede]

If your application is so broken that it depends on the behavior of exemple.com to be correct, you have a bigger problems than this.

Re:Hm. How about tempuri.org

[simplypeachy]

Alternatively you could use http://example.com/ instead of making up your own stuff which serves no purpose whatsoever.