The Foo at bar.com

Love stumbling across domain/site combos like this. Like the digital equivalent of holdouts/nail houses (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holdout_%28real_estate%29). There's a surprising amount of them still out there.

kozhevnikov• 11 years ago

I typically use `foo@example.com` [1] and `07700 900000` for mobile [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Example.com

[2] http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/telecoms/numbering/guidance...

biot• 11 years ago

Relevant: http://acme.com/mail_filtering/

dummyguy• 11 years ago

dummy@guy.me

Tepix• 11 years ago

That's another legal address. You knew that, didn't you?

dankcode• 11 years ago

Sitting on gold with that domain name.

https://www.metricsbot.com/www/bar.com

DEinspanjer• 11 years ago

I can't help but think the pricing methodology on this site might be a bit off. I put uw.com in to check it because I know some of the history of that site. It said the site is worth less than $9.00!?

uw.com was originally owned by a company called Underware. Their biggest product was a defect tracking tool called TrackRecord. They were bought by Compuware in the 90s, and in early 2000 or 2001, Compuware forgot to renew the domain and it was bought out from under them. Last I checked, two letter .com domains were pretty rare and valuable.

tomcam• 11 years ago

Last I checked, two letter .com domains were pretty rare and valuable.

That was last time you checked. Now they're extremely rare and astoundingly valuable.

pilif• 11 years ago

I too am guilty of this and I would like to apologize if any of my old mistakes have ever caused you any additional work.

I have since seen the light and switched over to example.com which doesn't have an MX and doesn't listen on port 25, so no harm can be done to it.

schmidp• 11 years ago

Since I own bar.io and foo@bar.io is a valid email address, I also receive some interesting emails from time to time.

userbinator• 11 years ago

lots of folks

I wonder if these were the general population of users seen today, since AFAIK foo/bar are not in the vocabulary of most people as metasyntactic variables; I hear "blah" more commonly used for this purpose.

TeMPOraL• 11 years ago

It's not in the vocabulary of users (who don't know what "metasyntactic" means anyway), but it's still prominent in the vocabulary of developers.

aevernon• 11 years ago

When I was a comp sci student in the 90s, I was testing some code where I used foo@bar.com as a placeholder. Amusingly, I got a reply from The Foo, and now I'm glad to know I wasn't the only one who accidentally emailed him/her.

As others have pointed out, username@example.com is a better choice for documentation and examples.

idbentley• 11 years ago

http://www.something.com/

TDL• 11 years ago

Well, I guess I should apologize to the folks at bob.com. It's example.com for me from now on.

cdnsteve• 11 years ago

Anything @test.com would have gotten sample stuff from at least one dev as well, so sorry about that!

erroneousfunk• 11 years ago

Also see asdf@asdf.com: http://asdf.com/asdfemail.html I've gone to asdf.com for about 15 years now, and it hasn't changed it all. It's also always up, so it's handy to go to to test and see if I have Internet. I love that site.

SerpentJoe• 11 years ago

It also loads quickly and runs almost no Javascript, making it great for anything you want to test in the dev console.

howsiwei• 11 years ago

I use http://to/ for testing purposes. It has the shortest url and the the webpage consists of only 4 short lines of html.

vortico• 11 years ago

I love the MX 127.0.0.1 trick. I'm curious if that works as well as I think it does.

rwhitman• 11 years ago

I feel kind shamefully guilty now. I'm sorry.

The Foo at bar.com

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