On 08/17/2010 05:19 PM, Bruno Haible wrote: >>> +po_maude_pot_MSGID_BUGS_ADDRESS = bug-maude@@yoyodyne.com >> >> There was an example domain for email addresses, but it wasn't >> example.com IIRC. Using some arbitrary other one is not nice > > It's not an arbitrary one. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoyodyne> says: > "The Internet domain name yoyodyne.com was allocated by internet > software designer TGV Inc. as a "fake" domain name for use in DNS > configuration examples." > I chose it on purpose, because there is little risk that it collides with > a real company's address.
But example.com is the preferred name set aside for this use, by RFC 2606: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Example.com whereas yoyodyne does not have the backing of an RFC. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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