Comment by eugenekolo

20 hours ago

I believe your use is what they're trying to discourage.

example.com is meant to be legally allowed to be used in text such as "You visit a website (example.com) to browse the internet"

It is not meant to be queried by automated tests or used as a service.

I never queried it _automatically_, but many projects do. They might not have set out to provide that use, but what happened has happened, and breaking this implicit contract for a silly redesign is an odd choice.