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Public service announcement: It's best to use "example.com" (or .net, .org, etc) for this sort of thing, because there's no real server there to accidentally send traffic to or alter the search rankings of.

It's not usually that big a deal, but every so often someone will paste the wrong thing or an automated process will misinterpret something. It's better if this happens to a nonexistent domain.



There is a real server at example.com - check out http://example.com/ - or, if you want to be secure, it's also on https :)

example.com is the standard FQDN to use for examples, though. http://example.com/ links to the documentation...




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