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Example Domain
- ezekiell 5y agoI would to know how much traffic this website receives
- seqizz 5y agoI also want to know how many secrets just flow in
- kijeda 5y agoIt was about 80Mbps earlier this year: https://twitter.com/kjd/status/1405887961791569924 https://twitter.com/kjd/status/1405887961791569924
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- addingnumbers 5y agoFor a while my Amazon Alexa gadget was hitting three domains several times an hour, example.com/net/org. I looked with tcpdump and verified it was following every lookup with an HTTP get. I only left the Alexa on for a week while I was recovering from eye surgery, but it made those the top three most frequently queried domains for that whole month on my pi-hole charts. Presumably it was some connectivity test, but all three of those domains were hosted at the same IP at the time. Which would defeat the point of using three domains, if the goal was to reduce the possibility of one outage causing a false negative on the test.
- intosi 5y agoI forgot I had it installed on my phone, but clicking the link opened, to my surprise, the Simply Piano app. Why you'd associate your app with that domain for legitimate purposes is a bit of a mystery to me.
- smashed 5y agoProbably by copy pasting example code?
- pjerem 5y agoThat.
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- jaffacakes 5y agoThis shouldn't be possible on Android. Google requires apps capturing http/s deeplinks verify ownership of the URI.[1] They can accept any other schema declared in their manifest otherwise. Example code would seem most plausible, but I can't see how it would work. [1] https://developer.android.com/training/app-links/verify-site-associations https://developer.android.com/training/app-links/verify-site...
- kevingadd 5y agoTwitter deeplinks open the third-party Twitter client I have installed (Fenix) on Android for me.
- lgats 5y agoiOS or Android?
- BillinghamJ 5y agoIsn't that meant to be cryptographically paired? Apps shouldn't be able to intercept random domain names whenever they want You'd need the right info at URLs like: https://example.com/apple-app-site-association https://example.com/apple-app-site-association https://example.com/.well-known/apple-app-site-association https://example.com/.well-known/apple-app-site-association https://example.com/.well-known/assetlinks.json https://example.com/.well-known/assetlinks.json (Android) (which obviously don't exist for this domain)
- nness 5y agoThe advantage of example.com is that its still served over HTTP, which is very helpful if you are trying to force a redirect for wifi login or 'out of quota' on a phone plan.
- BenjiWiebe 5y agoLet me introduce you to neverssl.com!
- teddyh 5y agoThere are a number of those. I use http://detectportal.firefox.com/ http://detectportal.firefox.com/
- Biganon 5y agoI always use http://perdu.com http://perdu.com because it makes me smile. It's not even intended for testing purposes.
- pests 5y agoI use aol.com lol
- paradaux 5y agoChrome's equivalent is http://www.gstatic.com/generate_204 http://www.gstatic.com/generate_204 for those curious, and plenty of other browsers have their own. Neat tools as until I learned of the existence of these ssl-less sites to prompt captive portals I use to try to connect to various sites until it showed up.
- GrifMD 5y agohttp://captive.apple.com http://captive.apple.com was my go to just because I'd see it flash in the url bar before redirecting when connecting to airplane wifi. I like the subdomain, it's an apt description of the state your in before passing through the login/payment flow for these kinds of networks.
- oftenwrong 5y agoIANA also reserves TLDs like '.test' and '.example' as well as some IDN equivalents. https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2606.html https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2606.html https://www.iana.org/domains/reserved https://www.iana.org/domains/reserved
- colmmacc 5y agoThere are also documentation and example IP prefixes! 192.0.2.0/24 and 2001:db8::/32.
- santiagobasulto 5y agoAnd .local, right?
- lioeters 5y agoActually, no. According to RFC 2606 - Reserved Top Level DNS Names, the following four domain names are reserved: .test .example .invalid .localhost
- Lightbody 5y agoThis is a great reminder that when working with test data for stuff like email delivery, always use example.com (or a few other similar TLDs) and not stuff like "test.com" or "acme.com" or "dummyuser.com". I see this all the time by devs and they don't understand the risk and why example.com was put into the standards.
- tdrdt 5y agoExactly this. People heavily underestimate how many domain names are registered. There is a huge chance that you hit a mailbox when you make up an email address.
- throwawayboise 5y agoYep, even if you use a "random" email address like j4i58tujq45uh@foobar.com, they may very well have a "catch all" email account that will receive that mail.
- GauntletWizard 5y agoI have an integration test domain. It's just another domain, so far as my systems are concerned, but it's another domain I own and sign up as a customer for all my services. Rather: I sign it up as a customer on my staging instance, which is a real, public facing instance, that gets no advertising. It's a real domain with functioning... whatever I need to test. Email, DNS, Identity servers, etc.
- linuxlizard 5y agoI have a .com domain with 'test' in the name. I was mildly DNS spammed because Microsoft admins would create that thing with test in the name. I'd get 10-20 DNS packets a day. I moved it to an external DNS provider just to give my logs a break.
- mathfailure 5y ago20 packets a day? Phew! So you barely survived the DDoS!
- macintux 5y agoReminds me of the corp.com saga. https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/04/microsoft-buys-corp-com-so-bad-guys-cant/ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/04/microsoft-buys-corp-com-...
- pupppet 5y agoGood on whomever for making it a public service rather than a crap site filled with ads.
- entropie 5y agoI wonder how they managed to get a horizontal scrollbar. Edit: its a chrome extenstion I use.
- folkrav 5y agoI don't get a horizontal scrollbar unless I resize the viewport to <159px wide.
- entropie 5y agoI use brave. But you are right. Its not really the fault of the markup of the side. I use "Definer" chrome plugin [1]. That injects a absolute positioned #definer-bubble div with width:100% that does not work well with sites css thats sets a margin for every div. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/definer-advanced-popup-di/noagjioaihamoljcbelhdlldnmlgnkon https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/definer-advanced-p...
- anonu 5y agoOnly took 12 years of posting this to get a decent discussion going: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=example.com https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=example.com
- hereforphone 5y agoThere are several domains dedicated for example and special purposes. This is just one. https://www.iana.org/assignments/special-use-domain-names/special-use-domain-names.xhtml https://www.iana.org/assignments/special-use-domain-names/sp... https://www.iana.org/domains/reserved https://www.iana.org/domains/reserved
- psim1 5y ago$ dig example.com. mx +short 0 . It has an interesting MX record. I wonder what this does? Specifically, what should a mail agent do when the MX record points to "." ?
- oftenwrong 5y agoThat's a "null MX", indicating that the domain does not accept mail. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7505 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7505
- psim1 5y agoThanks! That RFC is new to me.
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- politelemon 5y agoThe web logs on example.com must be a treasure trove of interesting traffic, and also a security risk in some ways, depending on who has been testing with it.