https://perdu.com works very well for this. It also still answers to http.
replyApparently 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.
Mine is https://www.red.com/
replyBeen 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...
Yahoo.com should be your next one :)
replyI'd be willing to be ask.com will always resolve to a pingable IP address, that's a HOT domain name.
replyI'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.
replyStill 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.
replytl;dr ya
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.
replyIt'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.
replyI use https://www.example.com. I used to use Oprah.com; for some reason, that made me laugh.
replyAol.com for me.
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