About Us
Learn more about Example Domain and its purpose.
Our Purpose
Example Domain is reserved by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) for use in documentation and examples. It is available for use without needing permission or coordination.
This ensures that documentation writers, software developers, and technical authors have a reliable reference domain that will never conflict with real-world usage.
Standards and Governance
The domain is defined by IETF RFC 2606 and RFC 6761 as a reserved domain for safe use in examples. These standards guarantee that example.com will always resolve and remain available for its intended purpose.
IANA manages this domain as part of its responsibility for coordinating the global Internet's naming system.