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Something that I’m surprised a lot of devs don’t know; there are official domains you’re supposed to use for documentation, testing, etc. They are specifically reserved by IANA for these purposes. Originally I think it was just example.com, but they now have a list of all them: https://www.iana.org/domains/reserved
this makes me wonder about what volume of mail an MX for contoso.com would receive, if microsoft didn't own the domain. https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&hs=ujt&channel=f...
contoso.com does have MX records. $ dig +short -t mx contoso.com 10 contoso-com.mail.protection.outlook.com.
Something that I’m surprised a lot of devs don’t know; there are official domains you’re supposed to use for documentation, testing, etc. They are specifically reserved by IANA for these purposes. Originally I think it was just example.com, but they now have a list of all them: https://www.iana.org/domains/reserved
I've typically used example.com for testing, but link says it's just for documentation. Sounds like .test is the sanctioned way. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.test
Not using .test was a big problem for tools like Pow a while ago, but that's because they were using .dev, which had no official recognition as being reserved or special-purposed.
For e-mail addresses in particular, I could easily see a situation where your domain logic prevents you from using an invalid TLD (like .test), and it would be a shame to special-case something strictly for testing purposes.
Note also that there is a .bar gTLD, and there is a foo.bar domain as of 2014 (though it doesn't seem to be hosting any content). I run the .foo gTLD, and bar.foo is a real domain (though admittedly not as good as foo.bar). There is no .baz; next round maybe?
Something that I’m surprised a lot of devs don’t know; there are official domains you’re supposed to use for documentation, testing, etc. They are specifically reserved by IANA for these purposes. Originally I think it was just example.com, but they now have a list of all them: https://www.iana.org/domains/reserved
Not just domains but IP address ranges as well. Doesn't stop lots of people from doing things like using real US DOD ipv4 /8 sized ranges for things they shouldn't.
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I've typically used example.com for testing, but link says it's just for documentation. Sounds like .test is the sanctioned way. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.test
In practice, is there any difference? As long as example.com is guaranteed to be reserved, I don't see any downside in using it. Not using .test was a big problem for tools like Pow a while ago, but that's because they were using .dev, which had no official recognition as being reserved or special-purposed. For e-mail addresses in particular, I could easily see a situation where your domain logic prevents you from us…
These days invalid TLDs don't really exist. New ones are getting released all the time. The only problem you'd run into is if the system you're using is treating .test differently for some reason, but that's likely not the case, for obscurity reasons if nothing else.
This guy is really committed to the joke, seeing as how he could easily sell bar.com for millions of dollars. Note also that there is a .bar gTLD, and there is a foo.bar domain as of 2014 (though it doesn't seem to be hosting any content). I run the .foo gTLD, and bar.foo is a real domain (though admittedly not as good as foo.bar). There is no .baz; next round maybe?
This guy is really committed to the joke, seeing as how he could easily sell bar.com for millions of dollars. Note also that there is a .bar gTLD, and there is a foo.bar domain as of 2014 (though it doesn't seem to be hosting any content). I run the .foo gTLD, and bar.foo is a real domain (though admittedly not as good as foo.bar). There is no .baz; next round maybe?
Something that I’m surprised a lot of devs don’t know; there are official domains you’re supposed to use for documentation, testing, etc. They are specifically reserved by IANA for these purposes. Originally I think it was just example.com, but they now have a list of all them: https://www.iana.org/domains/reserved
As mentioned above, it should have been .test