diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 57908e90f..522400a1f 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -51,11 +51,11 @@ client will guide you through the process of obtaining and installing certs
 interactively.
 
 You can also tell it exactly what you want it to do from the command line.
-For instance, if you want to obtain a cert for ``thing.com``,
-``www.thing.com``, and ``otherthing.net``, using the Apache plugin to both
+For instance, if you want to obtain a cert for ``example.com``,
+``www.example.com``, and ``other.example.net``, using the Apache plugin to both
 obtain and install the certs, you could do this::
 
-  ./letsencrypt-auto --apache -d thing.com -d www.thing.com -d otherthing.net
+  ./letsencrypt-auto --apache -d example.com -d www.example.com -d other.example.net
 
 (The first time you run the command, it will make an account, and ask for an
 email and agreement to the Let's Encrypt Subscriber Agreement; you can
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ automate those with ``--email`` and ``--agree-tos``)
 If you want to use a webserver that doesn't have full plugin support yet, you
 can still use "standalone" or "webroot" plugins to obtain a certificate::
 
-  ./letsencrypt-auto certonly --standalone --email admin@thing.com -d thing.com -d www.thing.com -d otherthing.net
+  ./letsencrypt-auto certonly --standalone --email admin@example.com -d example.com -d www.example.com -d other.example.net
 
 
 Understanding the client in more depth
diff --git a/docs/using.rst b/docs/using.rst
index be877b17e..37fca2c57 100644
--- a/docs/using.rst
+++ b/docs/using.rst
@@ -111,11 +111,11 @@ potentially be a separate directory for each domain. When requested a
 certificate for multiple domains, each domain will use the most recently
 specified ``--webroot-path``.  So, for instance,
 
-``letsencrypt certonly --webroot -w /var/www/example/ -d www.example.com -d example.com -w /var/www/eg -d eg.is -d www.eg.is``
+``letsencrypt certonly --webroot -w /var/www/example/ -d www.example.com -d example.com -w /var/www/other -d other.example.net -d another.other.example.net``
 
 would obtain a single certificate for all of those names, using the
 ``/var/www/example`` webroot directory for the first two, and
-``/var/www/eg`` for the second two.
+``/var/www/other`` for the second two.
 
 The webroot plugin works by creating a temporary file for each of your requested
 domains in ``${webroot-path}/.well-known/acme-challenge``. Then the Let's