diff --git a/lib/site_template/_config.yml b/lib/site_template/_config.yml
index 436d5999..8cb35c70 100644
--- a/lib/site_template/_config.yml
+++ b/lib/site_template/_config.yml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 # You can create any custom variable you would like, and they will be accessible
 # in the templates via {{ site.myvariable }}.
 title: Your awesome title
-email: your-email@domain.com
+email: your-email@example.com
 description: > # this means to ignore newlines until "baseurl:"
   Write an awesome description for your new site here. You can edit this
   line in _config.yml. It will appear in your document head meta (for