Many of my readers will know, that example.com, example.net and example.org are reserved for use in documentation, according to RFC 2606. If you surf to any of these sites, there will be just the same information I wrote before and also a link to the RFC 2606. So it’s quiet interesting, why according to my statistics, example.com has a link on it, pointing to my website. I don’t no why this happened but it’s quiet interesting an if somebody can tell me what happened, I’m glad to know.
Here’s a proof (even if it only a line of text 
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Very interesting! What is the software you used in that proof? and what does this backlink means? is that like the result you search “link:yoursite.com” in Google Search? or just mean referrer?
Hi,
it’s Advanced Web Statistics (awstats). Afaik, the information come from the referrer so everyone would have the possibility to fake this information in his/her requests but I don’t think that there is any reason, why anybody should do this unless this person wants me to wonder why I’ve got this entries in my statistics
I see. Did you grep your access log? I bet those are from weird bots.
Hi
It might be, that someone has setup a local testing virtual website using example.com in the hosts table to point to the loopback adress. If testing a webpage with a link to your site on this local testing environment, you should recieve such a referrer log entry.