Note
Though there are .example.edu and .example.info, though used in documentation and registered by IANA, have a status is different from the official Reserved Top Level DNS Names:
This is not exactly the same situation as for say ".example.org", where IANA is the registrant *and* registrar.
Wikipedia links:
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- .example – Wikipedia
- .invalid – Wikipedia
- .local – Wikipedia
- .localhost – Wikipedia
- .test – Wikipedia
- localhost – Wikipedia
- Email address: Reserved domains – Wikipedia
Of note for e-mail are
example,invalid,example.com,example.net, andexample.org. - Example.com – Wikipedia (which puts
example.eduon the same level asexample.com,example.netandexample.org; this is not true, despite the domain being registered by the IANA, the IANA is not the registrar of the.edudomain) - Top-level domain: Reserved domains – Wikipedia
Reserved by RFC 2606 and explained further in RFC 6761:
- .test
- .example
- .invalid
- .localhost
Reserved by RFC 6762: .local
Reserved by RFC 7686: .onion
Reservation proposal by Internet-Draft draft-wkumari-dnsop-internal-00: .internal





