alt Hacker Newshttps://ask.com/ is my go-to site that I know will be up, but I know will not be in my DNS or browser cache. I use it as my "wait, is my internet really working" check.
I hope the domain lives on, and that I don't want to visit it.
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eresonance • today at 5:23 AM
Mine is https://www.red.com/
Been 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...
LeoPanthera • today at 5:35 AM
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.
It's quite rare to find an unregistered one.
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dlivingston • today at 5:37 AM
I use https://www.example.com. I used to use Oprah.com; for some reason, that made me laugh.
waynesonfire • today at 5:14 AM
Aol.com for me.
https://perdu.com works very well for this. It also still answers to http.
Apparently 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.
[1] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perdu.com