Bug 334991 – Use reserved Top Level DNS Names instead of (work|home).com

• Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX
• Product: Documentation

[Description Torsten Veller (RETIRED) 2010-08-28 11:07:25 UTC]

replace w*rk.com and h*me.com with work.example and home.example

[Comment 1 Torsten Veller (RETIRED) 2010-08-28 11:08:17 UTC]

Created attachment 245103 [details, diff]
lists.xml patch

[Comment 2 nm (RETIRED) 2010-08-28 23:35:30 UTC]

Too trivial to do. It'd be an extra burden on our translators, and ".example" isn't as obvious as ".com" when it comes to showing an example of "this is an email address."

Thank you for the report and the patch, though. :)

[Comment 3 Torsten Veller (RETIRED) 2010-08-29 04:30:43 UTC]

We do not own w*rk.com nor h*me.com. We shouldn't use them in our documentation.

example is a TLD used for documentation per
http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2606.txt

[Comment 4 Torsten Veller (RETIRED) 2010-08-31 06:04:15 UTC]

Bah, I wanted to reopen this bug.

Make Jim and James from work and home dot com happy again ;)
If you want more obvious examples, you can use your own work and home addresses or example.com and example.net. But using third-party domains is wrong.

[Comment 5 nm (RETIRED) 2010-08-31 06:34:38 UTC]

Meh, they can "recommend" all they want to in that RFC, but I'm not going to change the page, per comment #2.

[Comment 6 Torsten Veller (RETIRED) 2010-08-31 06:44:10 UTC]

it's wrong.

[Comment 7 nm (RETIRED) 2010-08-31 07:41:00 UTC]

And I told you already that RFC is just a recommendation, not letter and law. Given the stuff in comment #2, the change is not worth making.

Quit reopening this bug, please. It's not going to happen.