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Apple’s Russian iTunes launch plagued with "pornography bug"

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You'd think they'd have the sense to use something like "example.com", which could never possibly have such content.

Or maybe apple.com, worst case you get some self promotion.

It's not a bug, it's a feature.

> Update: most likely, the problem arises because of links: the people responsible for iTunes, put the “temporary” link type xx.xx.xx. That’s just such a site exists, and, as we have seen today, has nothing to do with the ideals of the company.Waiting for the fix.

This is certainly a new hallmark of lorem-ipsum-dummy-code-type error.

The actual site in question seems to be http://xxx.xxx/ (NSFW, obviously)

Aren't there standards for this kind of thing? When you want a placeholder domain?

e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.example and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.invalid

I personally use example.invalid. It's immediately obvious that it's an example and invalid :)

Yes - example.com

For testing emails, don't use foo@bar.com (that's a real email address!) or anything else that you can come up with. RFC 2606 guarantees that those domains be reserved for test/placeholder use.

http://subdomain.localhost should solve that problem...

example.com also exists specifically for this purpose.

Yes, but effectively nobody has ever heard of them. I've had to train a lot of both my local QA and devs to do this properly.

mydomain.com is another "real" site that many people use in example scenarios. It's actually a domain registrar.

I guess example.com isn't patent encumbered enough for itunes devs?

They could try contoso.com :D

I used to work for a startup that used acmecorp.com in all their demos and all over the documentation. It turned out the company behind the domain name didn't really appreciate getting dozens upon dozens of "confirm your registration" emails... but they did say we weren't the only offenders.

Ironic that our iOS app got rejected today for “mature themes”.

What is your app?

It's a publishing platform for iPad. We got approved after adding a Report button.

We're not releasing it yet because a newer version is in the works. If you're curious, leave an email at http://stampsy.com and we'll ping you once we're in the App Store (it will be free).

I bet it's some kind of portal that aggregates other content that you're not directly responsible for.

We're not aggregating other content. We let user create content on iPad and publish it on our platform. Apple was content with having us add a Report button.

Reddit-apps are allowed.

Links only to reddit, which doesn't host mature content (just links to it).

Apple had another similar issue with itunes searches that they just recently fixed -- searches for taboo words returning a lot of results:

http://blog.appstorerankings.net/blog/2012/10/28/itunes-sear...

They didn't test it before deployment?!

pics or it didn't happen

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