Comment by fudgeonastick
2 days ago
https://ask.com/ is my go-to site that I know will be up, but I know will not be in my DNS or browser cache. I use it as my "wait, is my internet really working" check.
I hope the domain lives on, and that I don't want to visit it.
https://perdu.com works very well for this. It also still answers to http.
Apparently it'll turn 30 years old in a few weeks [1]. It hasn't changed much if at all since its inception.
Its very small size makes it perfect for curl perdu.com or when the connection is very bad.
[1] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perdu.com
Mine is https://www.red.com/
Been using that for so many years now, probably 20ish? Oh wow, yup, I remember this page from 2006:
https://web.archive.org/web/20060505141837/http://www.red.co...
Yahoo.com should be your next one :)
I'd be willing to be ask.com will always resolve to a pingable IP address, that's a HOT domain name.
Haha yep yahoo has been mine forever for the same reason stated by the OP
I've been using yahoo.com as my test domain since 1995...! I think I used microsoft.com before that, but yahoo is easier to type.
Still feels like one big ad with an ad blocker. Not sure I’ll remember Perdu but that would be a nice fix. And maybe it connects to one domain instead of several.
tl;dr ya
I use https://www.example.com. I used to use Oprah.com; for some reason, that made me laugh.
I have a tiny bash script that picks four random common words from the list of the 10000 most common words on Wikipedia and tries to ping <word>.com for each.
It's quite rare to find an unregistered one.
I did this via some sort of bash + WHOIS call in about 1995 with the dictionary file I normally used for passwd cracking. There were a lot available then.
Aol.com for me.