The example domain

Jan 19, 2007

I always use google.com in my code samples as a way to show an example domain or URL. That’s because I wasn’t aware that there is a dedicated domain for use in samples which is'n available for registration.

Check out example.com, example.net or example.org and see for yourself.

These domain names are reserved for use in documentation and are not available for registration.

Now that I know, I will never use google.com as example URL again.

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Comments (3) -

 Frank Jensen
Frank Jensen
1/19/2007 5:23:48 PM #

I have also used several different URLs like Yahoo.com, domain.com, google.com, yourdomain.com etc. and seems pretty stupid to give links and better pagerank to another site for just having a domainname like domain.com - so I will for sure use example.com in the future, thanks for making me aware of this.

dfelker
dfelker
1/19/2007 5:32:37 PM #

Smoooth! Thanks!

 Denny Love
Denny Love
1/22/2007 9:34:47 PM #

Good information, was never aware of that!

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