Jun 26
So it seems in their wisdom ICANN has voted to relax the strict rules on the top level domains, ie .com, .uk etc meaning now that anything could become a tld, so I could register a domain ‘bah’ – so my web address could be http://foo.bah (as long as I can show a business plan and technical capacity???? That’s some requirement!!!)
Great idea – but what about email addresses? – Of course I’ll want to use my shiney new domain to host my email and I’ll want it to be foo@bah – I bet there’s not a single site out there that would let me register with that as my email address – let alone mail server/application that let’s me set that as my email alias!
Better get on with fixing it guys, it’s going to be here next year!
June 26th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
Surely email addresses will still require a domain name before the TLD? e.g. you@foo.bah - we don’t have me@com
June 26th, 2008 at 5:23 pm
yeah maybe, but there are currently only a handful of ‘none 2 character’ tlds, stuff like .com, .edu, .aero, .info, .name, .museum (and a few others) other than that you can safely test for the @ symbol with either at least 2 characters between [a-zA-Z] at the end OR one of the few ‘long ones’ and you’ll have a pretty good chance of having a legimate email address.
What this annoucement means is that all you can pretty much do now to check is to look for an @ symbol and perhaps a dot after the @.
You still have to adjust your validators to account for these new formats though…..
July 16th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
I too think TLD is the most imp factor in an email Id.