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Example.com is defined to not have ssl.

? https://www.example.com/ It's had HTTPS since at least 2014. [0]

That is a surprise to me, but you are right. I’m not quite sure what’s the use but there it is.

Defined by what or whom?

(I'm still sad that example.com responds to anything at all. It was originally defined as a completely unused, thus unresponsive, domain.)

Read example.com it answers all your questions :-)

It doesn't say that IANA defined it to not have HTTPS anywhere at all.