According to RFC2606, available at http://www.rfc.net/rfc2606.html, the following domains have been reserved for examples in technical and other writing:
example.com
example.org
example.net
In addition, the following TLDs are reserved for obvious uses:
.test
.example
.invalid
.localhost
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