*sigh*
Please look a little further. I never claimed there were ads on example.[org|com|net]. There were ads on [some of|many of] the other URLs that were used as example URLs. These were normalised *and* example.com was changed to example.org - yes, because we like .org better than .com.
I couldn't care less about you reverting .org to .com, I would have cared if you reverted to all the 'spammy' URLs that made less sense.
Siebrand
-----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: wikitech-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikitech-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] Namens Brion Vibber Verzonden: zaterdag 12 juli 2008 16:32 Aan: Wikimedia developers Onderwerp: Re: [Wikitech-l][MediaWiki-CVS] SVN:[37552]trunk/phase3/languages/messages/MessagesEn.php
Siebrand Mazeland wrote:
Like Simetrical said: we like .org better than .com, and as many 'example' domains pointed to pages showing ads, I thought I'd solve it. First in the English localisation, then in 100+ others.
example.com and example.org both display this text only:
You have reached this web page by typing "example.com", "example.net", or "example.org" into your web browser.
These domain names are reserved for use in documentation and are not available for registration. See RFC 2606, Section 3.
There are no ads. It's good to fix up the other non-standard example URLs, but IMHO example.com is more widely used in documentation, and .com hostnames are more familiar to most users, so I'd rather stick with the example.com we've used for years than change it gratuitously.
I've replaced the changed URLs back to example.com.
-- brion