Example.com Just Launched the Biggest Redesign in Decades
Example.com has undergone a significant visual and functional redesign, introducing multi-language support and CSS-based character animations. The site remains a reserved domain for documentation purposes, managed by IANA.
Why it matters
As a foundational internet resource, changes to example.com highlight modern web development trends and accessibility standards.
example.com is a reserved domain name set aside by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) for documentation purposes. It has been available as an example URL for developers and writers since the late nineties.
While the overall messaging of the page has been consistent over time, the visual appearance has received several major overhauls.
In this article, we take a look at the recent changes as well as the evolution of example.com over the last 20+ years.
Until 28 September 2026, example.com was a static English-language page. The redesign introduces multi-language support using JavaScript, showing the content in a new language every 5 seconds.
Example.com shows an explanation of the site's purpose in English, Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish. This is the English-language message:
This domain is for use in documentation examples without needing permission. This is not a service, avoid relying on it for testing and monitoring purposes.
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