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danso
> Update: most likely, the problem arises because of links: the people responsible for iTunes, put the “temporary” link type xx.xx.xx. That’s just such a site exists, and, as we have seen today, has nothing to do with the ideals of the company.Waiting for the fix.

This is certainly a new hallmark of lorem-ipsum-dummy-code-type error.

TazeTSchnitzel
The actual site in question seems to be http://xxx.xxx/ (NSFW, obviously)
Osmium
Aren't there standards for this kind of thing? When you want a placeholder domain?

e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.example and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.invalid

mistercow
example.com also exists specifically for this purpose.
jerf
Yes, but effectively nobody has ever heard of them. I've had to train a lot of both my local QA and devs to do this properly.
chimeracoder
Yes - example.com

For testing emails, don't use foo@bar.com (that's a real email address!) or anything else that you can come up with. RFC 2606 guarantees that those domains be reserved for test/placeholder use.

ams6110
mydomain.com is another "real" site that many people use in example scenarios. It's actually a domain registrar.
jrockway
I personally use example.invalid. It's immediately obvious that it's an example and invalid :)
TazeTSchnitzel
You'd think they'd have the sense to use something like "example.com", which could never possibly have such content.
jonknee
Or maybe apple.com, worst case you get some self promotion.
eps
I used to work for a startup that used acmecorp.com in all their demos and all over the documentation. It turned out the company behind the domain name didn't really appreciate getting dozens upon dozens of "confirm your registration" emails... but they did say we weren't the only offenders.
mhurron
It's not a bug, it's a feature.
danabramov
Ironic that our iOS app got rejected today for “mature themes”.
i386
What is your app?
IheartApplesDix
I bet it's some kind of portal that aggregates other content that you're not directly responsible for.
kristofferR
Reddit-apps are allowed.
bduerst
Links only to reddit, which doesn't host mature content (just links to it).
danabramov
We're not aggregating other content. We let user create content on iPad and publish it on our platform. Apple was content with having us add a Report button.
danabramov
It's a publishing platform for iPad. We got approved after adding a Report button.

We're not releasing it yet because a newer version is in the works. If you're curious, leave an email at http://stampsy.com and we'll ping you once we're in the App Store (it will be free).

frozenport
They didn't test it before deployment?!