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		Svip on Feb 21, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Please do not put IP addresses into DNS MX records > While .foo is a real top level domain, Google doesn’t let the public register names in it. For the record, example.com, example.net and example.org are reserved domains, that cannot be used. So you can always use those as safe examples. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Example.com https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2606

remram on Feb 22, 2021 [–]

It would have been nice if "cannot be used" meant that no one would be allowed to register it. From what I can see, example.org very much resolves and accepts HTTP connections. It even has an MX record...

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