Example.com

domain name reserved for documentation purposes and as an example of the use of domain names

The domain names example.com, example.net, example.org, and example.edu are domain names in the Domain Name System of the Internet. They are special domains reserved by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) at the direction of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) for documentation purposes. The domain names are used generally as examples for the use of domain names.