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.example is a reserved top-level domain

Top-level domain

A top-level domain , sometimes referred to as a top-level domain name, is the last part of an domain name, that is, the group of letters that follow the final dot of any domain name....
(TLD) not intended for production use in the public global Domain Name System

Domain name system

The Domain Name System is a hierarchical naming system for computers, services, or any resource participating in the Internet. It associates various information with domain names assigned to such participants....
(DNS). It was defined in June 1999 by RFC 2606, together with .invalid

.invalid

.invalid is a Top-level domain#Reserved TLDs not intended for practical use in the global Domain Name System . It was defined in June 1999 by RFC 2606, together with .test, .localhost, and .example....
, .localhost

.localhost

.localhost is a Top-level domain#Reserved TLDs not intended for practical use in the global Domain Name System . It was defined in June 1999 by RFC 2606, along with .example, .invalid, and .test....
, and .test

.test

.test is a Top-level domain#Reserved TLDs not intended for production use in the global Domain Name System . It was defined in June 1999 by RFC 2606, together with .invalid, .localhost, and .example....
.

The stated purpose for the creation of ".example" is to provide a TLD that can be used for examples in documentation and other technical writing, such that conflict with the global DNS can be avoided.

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.example is a reserved top-level domain

Top-level domain

A top-level domain , sometimes referred to as a top-level domain name, is the last part of an domain name, that is, the group of letters that follow the final dot of any domain name....
(TLD) not intended for production use in the public global Domain Name System

Domain name system

The Domain Name System is a hierarchical naming system for computers, services, or any resource participating in the Internet. It associates various information with domain names assigned to such participants....
(DNS). It was defined in June 1999 by RFC 2606, together with .invalid

.invalid

.invalid is a Top-level domain#Reserved TLDs not intended for practical use in the global Domain Name System . It was defined in June 1999 by RFC 2606, together with .test, .localhost, and .example....
, .localhost

.localhost

.localhost is a Top-level domain#Reserved TLDs not intended for practical use in the global Domain Name System . It was defined in June 1999 by RFC 2606, along with .example, .invalid, and .test....
, and .test

.test

.test is a Top-level domain#Reserved TLDs not intended for production use in the global Domain Name System . It was defined in June 1999 by RFC 2606, together with .invalid, .localhost, and .example....
.

The stated purpose for the creation of ".example" is to provide a TLD that can be used for examples in documentation and other technical writing, such that conflict with the global DNS can be avoided.

See also

example.com
Example.com

example.com, example.net, and example.org are Second-level domain domain names reserved by the Internet Engineering Task Force through RFC 2606, Section 3, for use in documentation and examples....
192.0.2.0/24
IPv4

Internet Protocol version 4 is the fourth revision in the development of the Internet Protocol and it is the first version of the protocol to be widely deployed....
– IPv4
IPv4

Internet Protocol version 4 is the fourth revision in the development of the Internet Protocol and it is the first version of the protocol to be widely deployed....
range reserved for documentation and example code by RFC 3330