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		geraldalewis on Nov 9, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: /web/null eats your HTTP I usually use example.com for this. ... I should probably stop spamming them.

wgx on Nov 9, 2011 | [–]

Example.com is an IANA domain, reserved for testing and documentation purposes. So, you're not spamming them.

http://www.iana.org/domains/example/

bryanlarsen on Nov 9, 2011 | [–]

From RFC 2606: "reserved for use in private testing, as examples in documentation, and the like."

So using example.com is not bad, and a lot better than other commonly used names like test.com.

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