A number of domains such as example.com and example.org are maintained for documentation purposes.
CorroboratedContext
A number of domains such as example.com and example.org are maintained for documentation purposes. These domains may be used as illustrative examples in documents without prior coordination with us. They are not available for registration or transfer.
Evidence
en.wikipedia.org · supports
The domains example.com, example.net, example.org and example.edu are intended for general use in any kind of documentation, such as technical and software documentation, manuals, and sample software configurations.
historyofdomainnames.com · supports
The second-level domain label example for the top-level domains com, net, and org, was reserved in 1999 by the Internet Engineering Task Force in RFC 2606, Section 3, while it was reserved for the edu domain by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) since 2000.
developers.cloudflare.com · context
IANA also maintains more example domains in their domain names documentation ↗︎.
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