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"It is designed to give developers and businesses a reliable and cost effective way to route end users to Internet applications by translating human readable names like www.example.com into the numeric IP addresses like 192.0.2.1 that computers use to connect to each other."

Maybe this isn't a big deal, but wouldn't someone who needs a DNS service either already know this or have a developer or IT guy who has explained to them why they need a DNS service?

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I'd like to see how far you get on the public portion of the internet with a 192.x.x.x anyway.

you mean 192.168.X.X?? 192.0.X.X is a public ip address range

Hehe, oops! You're completely right! My bad.

192.0.2.0/24 is actually intended for use in examples and documentation, just as it was used in this announcement.

Per RFC5737 - http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5737.txt:

"The use of designated address ranges for documentation and examples reduces the likelihood of conflicts and confusion arising from the use of addresses assigned for some other purpose."

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