--- title: Example.com Just Launched The Biggest Redesign In Decades description: A history of example.com's visual and infrastructure changes over more than two decades, culminating in a September 28, 2026 redesign that adds... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/example-com-just-launched-the-biggest-redesign-in-decades-2hsitdywt twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Example.com Just Launched The Biggest Redesign In Decades | daily.dev og:description: A history of example.com's visual and infrastructure changes over more than two decades, culminating in a September 28, 2026 redesign that adds... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/example-com-just-launched-the-biggest-redesign-in-decades-2hsitdywt og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/2HsITdYwt.png og:image:alt: Example.com Just Launched The Biggest Redesign In Decades og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Example.com Just Launched The Biggest Redesign In Decades **[DebugBear](https://daily.dev/sources/debugbear)** · 6 min read · 57 upvotes · 6 comments ## Summary A history of example.com's visual and infrastructure changes over more than two decades, culminating in a September 28, 2026 redesign that adds JavaScript-driven multi-language support with a character-by-character CSS opacity transition. The piece traces prior milestones: the 2002 table-based ICANN page on Apache 1.3.22, the 2013 EdgeCast CDN migration and card redesign, the October 2025 redesign following Edgio's bankruptcy, and the June 2026 switch to Cloudflare. It also notes the site now explicitly warns against relying on it for testing and monitoring due to occasional uptime issues. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What changed on example.com in the September 28, 2026 redesign? Example.com added multi-language support via JavaScript, cycling through English, Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, and Spanish messages every 5 seconds. It also inserts an SVG book icon and uses a character-by-character opacity transition, where each letter is wrapped in its own span with a slightly increasing CSS transition-delay, combined with a 0.4s opacity transition. _Developers tracking how reference sites and web platform conventions evolve can follow updates like this on daily.dev._ ### Why shouldn't I use example.com for testing or monitoring my application's network requests? Example.com is not a guaranteed service and its uptime is not reliable; monitoring data shows the server occasionally fails to respond correctly. It exists as a documentation domain reserved by IANA under RFC 2606, not as infrastructure meant to support production testing or monitoring workloads, so relying on it risks flaky results. _Anyone designing reliable test and monitoring setups can find similar infrastructure cautionary tales on daily.dev._ ### What infrastructure changes has example.com gone through over the years? Example.com moved from Apache (1.3.22 in 2002, upgraded to 1.3.27 on Red Hat Linux in 2003) to the EdgeCast CDN in July 2013. EdgeCast was later acquired by Limelight Networks in 2022, rebranded Edgio, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in late 2024; Akamai acquired select Edgio contracts. In October 2025 the Server header disappeared, and by June 2026 the site had migrated to Cloudflare, identifiable via cloudflare and CF-RAY headers. _Engineers evaluating CDN migrations and provider reliability can track similar infrastructure shifts on daily.dev._ ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@kizomanizo** · 5 upvotes > god knows the number of times I've used their placeholder email to oblivion **@hzmalix** · 4 upvotes >  **@ristotoldsep** · 4 upvotes > [example.com](http://example.com) shipping JS for a language switch is the most frontend sentence I’ve read today. **@qwertydiy** · 3 upvotes > I justy went to it. Looks much more modern and like a react app in UI (even though it is fully HTML5) **@agustinbarrientos** · 1 upvotes > I prefer a language selector here. Five seconds is a pretty short deadline for reading a paragraph in a second language. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Frontend Focus Issue 731: March 4, 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/frontend-focus-issue-731-march-4-2026-r1wjunf9x) · Frontend Focus · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [The most-seen UI on the Internet? 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