Question

Is there a legitimate ‘generic’ package name I can use to open-source some demo code?

I want to provide the source of a demo Android app as ‘public-domain’ via Google Code or wherever but I’d like the source package to be ‘generic’. In other words, I do have a registered domain which I normally use for package naming but I’d rather not have that for demo code.

I sometimes see example code packages using com.example.some.package (for example) but that’s a registered domain name. Is there any common accepted way of naming a generic package which doesn’t use someone’s registered domain?

Answer 1

example.com, example.net and example.org are reserved by IANA for just such a purpose actually.