Only use example.com as example domain

[Josh-Cena]

Remove a lot of example domains that may happen to be valid, to fix #39865. It is impossible to find all such examples, but I found a good bunch.

[github-actions]

Preview URLs (21 pages)

• /en-US/docs/Glossary/Preflight_request
• /en-US/docs/Learn_web_development/Extensions/Forms/Basic_native_form_controls
• /en-US/docs/Learn_web_development/Extensions/Forms/Sending_and_retrieving_form_data
• /en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/declarativeNetRequest
• /en-US/docs/Web/API/BackgroundFetchRegistration/matchAll
• /en-US/docs/Web/API/BackgroundFetchRegistration/match
• /en-US/docs/Web/API/Cache/delete
• /en-US/docs/Web/API/Cache/keys
• /en-US/docs/Web/API/Cache/matchAll
• /en-US/docs/Web/API/Cache/match
• /en-US/docs/Web/API/CacheStorage/match
• /en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLElement/hidden
• /en-US/docs/Web/API/URL/URL
• /en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/At-rules/@media/color-index
• /en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/At-rules/@media/device-height
• /en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/At-rules/@media/device-width
• /en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Guides/Proxy_servers_and_tunneling/Proxy_Auto-Configuration_PAC_file
• /en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Guides/Proxy_servers_and_tunneling
• /en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/Headers/Access-Control-Allow-Headers
• /en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/RegExp
• /en-US/docs/Web/Progressive_web_apps/Manifest/Reference/start_url

Flaws (10)

Note! 14 documents with no flaws that don't need to be listed. 🎉

URL: /en-US/docs/Learn_web_development/Extensions/Forms/Basic_native_form_controls
Title: Basic native form controls
Flaw count: 2

• macros:
  • Macro produces link /en-US/docs/Web/CSS/:default which is a redirect
  • Macro produces link /en-US/docs/Web/CSS/:checked which is a redirect

---

URL: /en-US/docs/Learn_web_development/Extensions/Forms/Sending_and_retrieving_form_data
Title: Sending form data
Flaw count: 1

• macros:
  • Can't resolve /en-US/curriculum/

---

URL: /en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLElement/hidden
Title: HTMLElement: hidden property
Flaw count: 1

• macros:
  • Macro produces link /en-US/docs/Web/CSS/display which is a redirect

---

URL: /en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/At-rules/@media/color-index
Title: color-index
Flaw count: 1

• macros:
  • Macro produces link /en-US/docs/Web/CSS/integer which is a redirect

---

URL: /en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/At-rules/@media/device-height
Title: device-height
Flaw count: 1

• macros:
  • Macro produces link /en-US/docs/Web/CSS/length which is a redirect

---

URL: /en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/At-rules/@media/device-width
Title: device-width
Flaw count: 1

• macros:
  • Macro produces link /en-US/docs/Web/CSS/length which is a redirect

---

URL: /en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/Headers/Access-Control-Allow-Headers
Title: Access-Control-Allow-Headers header
Flaw count: 3

• unknown:
  • No generic content config found
  • no blog root
  • no blog root

(comment last updated: 2025-11-09 02:29:57)

[rebloor]

@dotproto any thoughts on this? Does it make the examples to unrealistic?

[wbamberg]

FWIW I don't much like .example as a TLD, as it is so unexpected (same applies in the XSS guide). But if it's the consensus, I would go along with it.

[bsmth]

+1, this was also my initial read here, but I think it's the right call.

[github-actions]

This pull request has merge conflicts that must be resolved before it can be merged.

[Josh-Cena]

Hi everyone! Since we can't agree on using the .example TLD I'm removing it from this PR, and only working on the cases where the domain name itself has no meaning and can be replaced with example.com.