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Since it died suck.com has been my canonical "poke the public-access WiFi gateway so it'll send me to its clickthrough agreement page" URL, since at least at one point that usually worked via DNS poisoning and I wanted to make sure it didn't poison a domain I actually wanted to visit for real. So I wound up seeing the page relatively often even recently. I was very sad when I saw it had turned into a parking spot sometime earlier this year. :/

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For all those suggesting that you migrate to example.com, I'll note that lots of ISPs and even companies hijack example.com directly.

I ran into this running our little test suite that hit example.com to test that we were able to make http requests and get the right output. One day on a different network the test failed ;).

Huh, the whois hasn't changed. I think Wired's shifted it to the "buy this domain" thing before, and shifted it back, so perhaps this isn't permanent?

http://example.com seems like a good alternative.

I use asdf.com for that. It's just a simple HTML page without a lot of trash and there's nothing there that I care about visiting.

purple.com is also good for this purpose (and others, like just seeing if you can get through a proxy or whatnot), and has been for decades.

Purple.com is too limiting. I prefer Zombo.com. You can do anything there.

foo.com user here. It's nice because it doesn't have an HTTPS redirect, so it always works.

Why not example.com?

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