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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.

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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

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.

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.

Haha yep yahoo has been mine forever for the same reason stated by the OP

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

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...

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.

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