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.example
example test so that they may not be installed into the root zone
Introduced 1999 of the Domain Name System.
The reasons for reservation of these top-level domain
TLD type Reserved top-level domain
names is to reduce the likelihood of conflict and confu-
Status Reserved to prevent confusion and sion.[1] This allows the use of these names for either doc-
conflict umentation purposes or in local testing scenarios.
Registry IANA
Sponsor None Purpose
Intended use Example top-level domain for The top-level domain example is explicitly intended
documentation to be used in documentation or other technical writing,
when domain names are presented as examples in usage
Actual use Sometimes used in intended manner in
documentation or presentation of concepts of the Domain Name System
or the Internet.
Registration no registrations are possible
restrictions
Structure as needed in example usage
See also
• example.com
Documents RFC 2606
• 192.0.2.0/24 – IPv4 range reserved for
Dispute policies None documentation and example code by RFC 3330
• 2001:db8::/32 – IPv6 range reserved for
Website None
documentation by RFC 3849
The name example is reserved by the Internet Engineer-
ing Task Force (IETF) in RFC 2606 (June 1999) as a domain References
name that may not be installed as a top-level domain in
[1] ^ RFC 2606 (BCP 32), Reserved Top Level DNS Names,
the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet.[1]
D. Eastlake, A. Panitz, The Internet Society (June
1999)
Reserved DNS names
In 1999, the Internet Engineering Task Force reserved
the DNS labels example, invalid, localhost, and
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• Top-level domains
• Placeholder names
• 1999 introductions
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