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one or two sentences, they don't want to provide free advertising for someone, and they don't want to take the time to register a real one. If a "fictitious" domain name redirects to a real one, then its not really fictitious is it? If the domain name follows a proper format (www.name.legal extension)then I don't think it could ever be listed here. In fact many of the entries on this page are not fictitious domain names, but domain names which companies tied in to game/movies that were real, and actually put content on. That alone demonstrates the problems here. Look at the introduction
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And what is the encyclopedic value beyond that? That sounds like it would be completely based on trivia that wouldn't give a reader any greater understanding. TV/Movies/Books all use fake domain names for the same reason they use fake telephone numbers. The greater understanding can be explained in
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Which consists mainly of a jumble of trivia and speculation. 555 telephone numbers and ficticious domain names are not the same though. 555 numbers are real in some places, and occur frequently. There is no pattern to ficticious domain
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to be fictitious at the time they appeared on screen but actually redirect to someone's homepage? That kind of thing. It's late here and I'm not thinking clearly, but maybe some of that makes sense.
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