Example Domain
A quiet desk in warm daylight with a notebook, pen, and a laptop open on a plain white page.

Reserved for documentation

Example Domain

A calm, dependable placeholder for the modern web — reserved by IANA, specified in RFC 2606, and readable in every language your readers speak.

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Reserved since
1999 · RFC 2606
Dependencies
Zero
Tracking
None

One domain, every script

Built to be read in every language you write in.

The original placeholder says one sentence. We say it in six scripts — French, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, Japanese, and English — each rendered at full body size, correct direction, and proper CJK and Arabic fallbacks. No tofu boxes. No shrunken grey text.

It is the same sentence, treated with the same care. That is the whole idea.

See how it holds up
Long rows of books in a bright library, spines in many languages and alphabets.
Six scripts, one measure of legibility.

  1. English en

    This domain is for use in documentation examples without needing permission.

  2. Français fr

    Ce domaine est destiné à être utilisé dans des exemples de documentation sans autorisation préalable.

  3. Русский ru

    Этот домен предназначен для использования в примерах документации без необходимости разрешения.

  4. Español es

    Este dominio es para uso en ejemplos de documentación sin necesidad de permiso.

  5. العربية ar

    هذا النطاق مخصص للاستخدام في أمثلة التوثيق دون الحاجة إلى إذن.

  6. 日本語 ja

    このドメインは、許可を得ることなくドキュメントの例として使用できます。

A laptop screen filled with clean, well-indented source code in daylight.
Markup this simple needs no build step to stay fast.

Proof

Built to be read, tested, and trusted.

Example Domain is not a marketing page pretending to be neutral. It is the neutral page — used by specification writers, QA engineers, and documentation teams because it is stable, legally safe, and behaves identically everywhere it loads.

  • Reserved by IANA

    Set aside in RFC 2606 so no real business, brand, or person depends on it.

  • Zero dependencies

    No frameworks, no analytics, no third-party requests. It loads before your coffee cools.

  • Accessible by default

    WCAG AA contrast on every line, 44 px tap targets, visible focus rings, honest semantics.

  • Correct in six scripts

    Arabic right-to-left, Japanese with CJK fallbacks, and translations never smaller than body copy.

The difference

example.org, example.net, the IANA help page, and RFC 2606 all get one thing right: they stay out of the way. This is the first version of that idea designed as a readable, multilingual, accessible editorial artifact — facts you can cite, rendered so a human actually wants to read them.

Three people working together around a table of open laptops in a bright, relaxed studio.
Documentation teams borrow it every day. It gives them nothing to maintain.

Good to know

Not a service. No monitoring. No surprises.

Safe for examples, demos, documentation, and testing — in a blog post, a textbook, a unit test, or a client deck. Reserved by IANA, specified in RFC 2606, and free to use without asking anyone for permission.

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Your turn

Use Example Domain in your next example.

Drop it into a tutorial, a test suite, a slide, or a spec. It will be just as quiet and just as correct in ten years as it is today.

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