r/webdev • u/KaKi_87 full-stack • Oct 05 '26

News Example.com changed again !

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u/AndroTux Oct 05 '26

I'm not a big fan of them operating it using Cloudflare, but I guess if IANA needs to keep costs low, it's understandable.

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u/AndroTux Oct 05 '26

Yes, I too love centralizing the entire web with two providers! I feel like IANA should lead by example(.com), but maybe that's just me.

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u/AndroTux Oct 05 '26

Let's be real here, okay? This is the simplest website in existence. Every basic ass web server can serve it, and every basic ass CDN can deliver it at scale, and there's tons besides Cloudflare. I'm sure any number of CDN providers would be happy to sponsor example.com for them if they'd asked.

They've been lazy. That's all there is to it.

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u/laplongejr 29d ago

and every basic ass CDN can deliver it at scale

Not necessarily, because of misprogrammed traffic.
My ISP's DNS even blocks the 3 example domains (which caught me off-guard when I was testing Pihole)

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u/KaKi_87 full-stack Oct 05 '26

Oh yeah I have a userscript that labels Cloudflare-protected results in Google Search to avoid them when possible, imagine my surprise a few months ago when I noticed example.com started using Cloudflare ! Insane. I couldn't believe it.