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Example.com Has Changed

Posted by timothy on from the foo-baz-is-now-frum-burz dept.

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?"

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  1. For documentation purposes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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?

  2. you might have bigger problem by JonySuede · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

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  3. Re:really? by BatGnat · · Score: 5, Informative

    I don't know, it is pretty Earth shattering news.

    I don't think i will be able to sleep at work today because of it....

  4. In other news... by Chelloveck · · Score: 5, Funny

    The meta-syntactic variable 'foo' now redirects to 'bar'. Please update your placeholders accordingly.

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    I give up on debugging. From now on, SIGSEGV is a feature.
  5. Example please. by gstrickler · · Score: 5, Funny

    Please provide an example of how it should work.

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