Fictitious domain name
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A fictitious domain name is a domain name used in a work of fiction or popular culture to refer to an Internet address that does not actually exist. This is similar in concept to 555 telephone numbers. Although RFC 2606 specifies particular reserved domains such as .example or example.com for such purposes, they are rarely used in popular culture. See the list of fictitious domain names for more.
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[edit] Examples
- feardotcom.com, from the film FeardotCom; in the real world, the address of the film's promotional site.
- hornymanatee.com, from Late Night with Conan O'Brien, a fake manatee porn website
- martianbuddy.com, website of Martian Buddy, a fictitious company supplying the Mars UAC base in the computer game Doom 3.
- moviepoopshoot.com, an Ain't It Cool News–style website from the Kevin Smith film Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. A duplicate of the site in the movie was also put online[1]; Smith later turned the site into an actual entertainment news site (since renamed Quick Stop Entertainment).
- sylviaimports.com, a domain name used by a villain in 24 season 3. The actual site hosts a small message directed at fans of the show.
- ladyheather.com, official site of Lady Heather in CSI.
- oceanic-air.com, the website of the crashed plane's airline in Lost.
[edit] Grand Theft Auto
The Grand Theft auto series includes multiple fictitious domains, including:
- petsovernight.com spoof adverts in the Grand Theft Auto III "radio stations" advertise this as being able to ship almost any pet overnight. A play on the line ....overnight some parts from Japan from the movie The Fast and the Furious.
- lovemedia.tv is the fictitious site for media monopoly Love Media.
[edit] Final Destination 2
In the horror movie Final Destination 2, a web search turns up several webpages using fictitious domain names, most of which end in the non-existant top-level domain SRV. A notable exception is neocities.members.images, apparently a parody of Yahoo! GeoCities.
[edit] Songs that have fictitious website addresses
- www.blonde girl, from the Dance Dance Revolution song "WWW.BLONDE GIRL (Momo Mix)," on the album DDR MAX OST.
- www.emale.com, from the chorus of the song "Emale" by Prince (then
). The address redirects to Prince's official website. - www.nevergetoveryou, the title of a single by Prozzak. The URL http://www.nevergetoveryou.com/ formerly redirected to the band's official website.
- www.memory is the title of a single by Alan Jackson.
- www.sara, by the band ALL, which appeared on the 2000 album Problematic. The three W's stand for "What Went Wrong?"
- www.loveyou@me.com is a deliberately ironic confusion of website and e-mail addresses by The Arrogant Worms in the song "Log In To You" from their 1999 album, Dirt!.
[edit] IP addresses
When IP addresses are called for in a script, some TV shows, like 24, use numbers that are over 255 (which are invalid addresses). The movie Swordfish uses an IP of 293.xx.xxx.xx in one scene, and the comic strip Narbonic referenced the fictitious IP 132.513.151.319. In Antitrust, several addresses in the 10.x.x.x range are shown; this is a non-routable RFC 1918 private network area. The CSI series often use invalid 5 segment IP addresses (e.g. xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx). The IP address range 192.0.2.x is called "TEST-NET" and designated by RFC 3330 as being "for use in documentation and example code". Also, the "loopback" IP address 127.0.0.1 (which routes back to its source) is used frequently.
