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I have my own e-mail addresses at rhabarberbarbarabarbarbarenbartbarbierbierbar.com that I use for fun and testing form validation. It is surprisingly rare that

by mikl 6y ago

I have my own e-mail addresses at rhabarberbarbarabarbarbarenbartbarbierbierbar.com that I use for fun and testing form validation. It is surprisingly rare that I find sites that break over it.

tzs 6y ago
I've seriously considered getting some long and meaningless domain (although not that long) for some serious use. I'd probably go with something like a prefix of 'm' (for "mail") followed by 64 random bits in hex, so something like m95aaa5aea09bdc67.com. Addresses there would only be used as the recovery addresses for vital services such as bank and brokerage accounts, domain registrar accounts, telephone company accounts, and mail hosting accounts, and that's probably all. By "recovery address" I mean the address that the service provider will use if someone initiates an "I forgot my password and lost my 2FA device!" password reset. It's any address that if someone takes control of they can take over your account at that service starting from at most your user name on that service. Why a meaningless name like m95aaa5aea09bdc67.com? To minimize the risk of someone coming in and trying to take it over via a trademark dispute. For this I want domain name that I can be very sure I can keep as long as the current domain system is still in place.
myself248 6y ago
Hah! I was just showing that video to a friend last night. I used to have myself@iwenttodefcon7.andalligotwas.thislousyemailaddress.com and I used it for quite a bit of testing too. Broke all sorts of things, either because of length or multiple levels of subdomain or who knows what. I'd love a service that gives you all sorts of peculiar-but-valid addresses for testing... hmm. Is there a market here?
daveslash 6y ago
I don't speak German, but I used Youtube's auto-translate captions to get the gist of what I was seeing.... that is amazing.
dathinab 6y ago
Oh I just realized that the name was that Bart barbier thing ;). I first thought it's random letters.

by mikl 6y ago

I have my own e-mail addresses at rhabarberbarbarabarbarbarenbartbarbierbierbar.com that I use for fun and testing form validation. It is surprisingly rare that I find sites that break over it.

tzs 6y ago

I've seriously considered getting some long and meaningless domain (although not that long) for some serious use. I'd probably go with something like a prefix of 'm' (for "mail") followed by 64 random bits in hex, so something like m95aaa5aea09bdc67.com. Addresses there would only be used as the recovery addresses for vital services such as bank and brokerage accounts, domain registrar accounts, telephone company accounts, and mail hosting accounts, and that's probably all. By "recovery address" I mean the address that the service provider will use if someone initiates an "I forgot my password and lost my 2FA device!" password reset. It's any address that if someone takes control of they can take over your account at that service starting from at most your user name on that service. Why a meaningless name like m95aaa5aea09bdc67.com? To minimize the risk of someone coming in and trying to take it over via a trademark dispute. For this I want domain name that I can be very sure I can keep as long as the current domain system is still in place.

myself248 6y ago

Hah! I was just showing that video to a friend last night. I used to have myself@iwenttodefcon7.andalligotwas.thislousyemailaddress.com and I used it for quite a bit of testing too. Broke all sorts of things, either because of length or multiple levels of subdomain or who knows what. I'd love a service that gives you all sorts of peculiar-but-valid addresses for testing... hmm. Is there a market here?

daveslash 6y ago

I don't speak German, but I used Youtube's auto-translate captions to get the gist of what I was seeing.... that is amazing.

dathinab 6y ago

Oh I just realized that the name was that Bart barbier thing ;). I first thought it's random letters.