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A huge pet peeve of mine are sites that reject the new TLDs in emails or URLs. I use my hotfresh.pizza email address pretty often and you'd be surprised how man

A huge pet peeve of mine are sites that reject the new TLDs in emails or URLs. I use my hotfresh.pizza email address pretty often and you'd be surprised how many sites reject that with "Please enter a valid email address." Infuriating.

dmd 11y ago
You'd be surprised how many sites reject my domain, 3e.org. Sometimes it's because it begins with a number, sometimes it's because it's too short.
- ikeboy 11y ago
  I've had Gogo's inflight wifi not let me sign up because my email account at gmail started with a number.
- LukeShu 11y ago
  To be fair, an old RFC referenced by an RFC that is referenced by the current thing specifies that a segment of a domain name can't start with a number. Obviously, that isn't true in the real world.
  - ikeboy 11y ago
    So, TLDs are selling (technically) invalid domains?
    - LukeShu 11y ago
      And every major implementation supports them. Well, I trudged through the RFCs in ~2010, so it's possible that it's been updated since then.
- daegloe 11y ago
  Same issue with our hi.fi. Facebook's JavaScript SDK wouldn't write cookies to it, instead rejecting it as too short and invalid. Had to open a ticket and the oversight was corrected, with lots of embarrassment and apologizing.
smaili 11y ago
Little off topic but what inspired that domain?
- colinbartlett 11y ago
  Simply my love for pizza, especially the hot and fresh variety. When I discovered the .pizza TLD, my eyes lit up.
jmelloy 11y ago
There's also a proposal in front of ICANN to allow dotless domains, eg http://pizza http://pizza
- gkop 11y ago
  Ha, and HN is on board, apparently!
- chinpokomon 11y ago
  So to conflict with Intranet sites? Bad idea in my opinion. I already use lots of one word Intranet sites at work. If http://pizza http://pizza were public you'd have to have some way to distinguish between the local site and the external. That also seems like something you could then spoof.
  - yAnonymous 11y ago
    There's no money in intranet addresses.
chinpokomon 11y ago
This is why I haven't been able to update my Yahoo account in several years. I keep sending them bugs about it, but no one has fixed it yet.
odonnellryan 11y ago
Sometimes this isn't the website, it's actually the third-party API their using for users/signups/mailings/whatever :)

dmd 11y ago

You'd be surprised how many sites reject my domain, 3e.org. Sometimes it's because it begins with a number, sometimes it's because it's too short.

ikeboy 11y ago
I've had Gogo's inflight wifi not let me sign up because my email account at gmail started with a number.
LukeShu 11y ago
To be fair, an old RFC referenced by an RFC that is referenced by the current thing specifies that a segment of a domain name can't start with a number. Obviously, that isn't true in the real world.
- ikeboy 11y ago
  So, TLDs are selling (technically) invalid domains?
  - LukeShu 11y ago
    And every major implementation supports them. Well, I trudged through the RFCs in ~2010, so it's possible that it's been updated since then.
daegloe 11y ago
Same issue with our hi.fi. Facebook's JavaScript SDK wouldn't write cookies to it, instead rejecting it as too short and invalid. Had to open a ticket and the oversight was corrected, with lots of embarrassment and apologizing.

smaili 11y ago

Little off topic but what inspired that domain?

colinbartlett 11y ago
Simply my love for pizza, especially the hot and fresh variety. When I discovered the .pizza TLD, my eyes lit up.

jmelloy 11y ago

There's also a proposal in front of ICANN to allow dotless domains, eg http://pizza http://pizza

gkop 11y ago
Ha, and HN is on board, apparently!
chinpokomon 11y ago
So to conflict with Intranet sites? Bad idea in my opinion. I already use lots of one word Intranet sites at work. If http://pizza http://pizza were public you'd have to have some way to distinguish between the local site and the external. That also seems like something you could then spoof.
- yAnonymous 11y ago
  There's no money in intranet addresses.

chinpokomon 11y ago

This is why I haven't been able to update my Yahoo account in several years. I keep sending them bugs about it, but no one has fixed it yet.

odonnellryan 11y ago

Sometimes this isn't the website, it's actually the third-party API their using for users/signups/mailings/whatever :)