On: Microsoft buys corp.com so bad guys can’t

[gfiorav]

This is why I use foo TLDs in the documentation. To make sure it won't work in a copy-paste situation.

[013a → gfiorav]

example.com is also always a safe one; RFC-2606 defines four top-level domains and three second-level domain names permanently reserved by IANA for testing purposes: .test, .example, .invalid, .localhost, .example.com, .example.net, and .example.org.

[caymanjim → gfiorav]

> This is why I use foo TLDs in the documentation. To make sure it won't work in a copy-paste situation

You're describing the exact methodology that led to this problem.

[pix64 → gfiorav]

FYI, google owns .foo

[gfiorav → pix64]

ha, the more you know!