example.com

example.com
Web address www.example.com
Commercial? No
Type of site
Reserved placeholder domain
Registration None
Available in English
Written in HTML
Owner Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
Launched 1 January 1992 (1992-01-01)
Alexa rank
Decrease 14,487 (Global 06/2015)
Current status Online
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Example.com, example.net, example.org, and example.edu are second-level domain names reserved for documentation purposes and examples of the use of domain names.

The second-level domain label example for the top-level domains com, net, and org, was reserved in 1999 by the Internet Engineering Task Force in RFC 2606, Section 3,[2] while it was reserved for the edu domain by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) since 2000.

By implementing the reservation, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) made available domains to use in technical and software documentation, manuals and sample software configurations. Thus, documentation writers can be sure to select a domain name without creating naming conflicts if end-users try to use the sample configurations or examples verbatim.

When an address such as username@example.com is used to demonstrate the sign-up process on a website, it indicates to the user they should fill in an actual email address at which they receive mail. Example.com is used in a generic and vendor-neutral manner.

These domain names resolve to Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for IPv4 and IPv6 of a web server managed by ICANN and are digitally signed using DNSSEC.

The example domains have one subdomain name defined in the Domain Name System. For each domain, the third-level domain name www resolves to the same IPv4 and IPv6 addresses as the parent domains.

See also

References

  1. "Whois Record for Example.com". DomainTools.com. Retrieved 29 June 2015.
  2. RFC 2606, Reserved Top Level DNS Names, D. Eastlake, A. Panitz, The Internet Society (June 1999)

External links

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