Here are some of my blog posts on documenting using example domains and example IP-addresses or IP-ranges:
- RFC2606: Reserved Top Level DNS Names (RFC); draft-ellermann-idnabis-test-tlds-04: Reserved Top Level DNS Names (Internet-Draft, 2008)
- A url or site like example.org which always produces a 404 error (and two for 200 and 204)
- Example.[com|net|org] Web Page
- The Bogon Reference – Team Cymru
(I really wish that example.org and others would service SMTP with blackhole routing so one can also use it for bogus email addresses in documentation)
The blog posts above were incomplete (IPv6 was missing; IPv4 was not explained), so below are more links that do a better job based on a Tweet from [Wayback/Archive] Julia Evans (@b0rk).





