Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2459 mails)

[Ken Schneider <suse-list3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Carlos E. R. pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
> > Have a look at http://www.example.com:
>
>
> > You have reached this web page by typing "example.com", "example.net",
> > or "example.org" into your web browser.
>
> > These domain names are reserved for use in documentation and are not
> > available for registration. See RFC 2606, Section 3.
>
> Curious! I thought that you meant they were reserved not to exist.
>
> I see there are more:
>
>                    .test
>                 .example
>                 .invalid
>               .localhost
>
>
> But http://invalid.com does exist and work. Perhaps I understood it wrong.

But it is not the same.
domain.invalid is not a valid domain name but invalid.com is.

-- 
Ken Schneider
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