example.com

Example.com, example.net, example.org and example.edu are second-level domains that have been permanently reserved by the Internet Engineering Task Force, as proposed in Section 3 in the quasi-standard RFC 2606. You can not be claimed by third parties and therefore are mainly used as an example domains in different instructions. They can thus be understood as a kind of William Smith for domains.

The reservation, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), the domains also for use in software documentation and user manuals available. Authors of such operating instructions may therefore be sure that they select a domain for illustration, the organization is not related to a real-world or with the subject of the instructions related leads. If readers of the instructions call this domain because they did not recognize the character pattern of the reference in the instructions, they are reminded that it is merely an example.

The call in a Web browser has this purpose explicitly points ( http://example.com ):

"This domain is established to be used for illustrative examples in documents. Methods You may use this domain to the examples without prior coordination or asking for permission. "

For information in the context of a login process on a website address like " [email protected] " can be used. Such an IP address shows the user an example of the correct format, in which he has to enter his own data.