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I gave up using mail@<nickname>.network because of the significant percentage of sites that refuse the .network TLD. One large financial services provider even

I gave up using mail@<nickname>.network because of the significant percentage of sites that refuse the .network TLD. One large financial services provider even told me that their "policy" was to allow 3, 4, or 5 characters as the last part of the domain. So .ninja is A-OK. I pointed out how ludicrous this was, and they told me it was their "policy" again, and that's why Australian Super doesn't have any of my money.

jlokier 6y ago
> their "policy" was to allow 3, 4, or 5 characters as the last part of the domain Wow, no country codes? I could understand a restriction dating from before the great expansion of TLDs, but expect it to have a 2 in it.
- jen729w 6y ago
  Ah, apologies. My mistake, yes, 2 digits was fine. Actually I wonder then if it was 2, 3, or 4. I think it was, because I remember thinking that .wiki would have been okay. Either way. Arbitrary and stupid.
mysterydip 6y ago
I would bet on a number of sites this is because they all copied and pasted the same email validation regrex they found online when googling, which was made before TLDs could be that long, and they don't know how to fix it.
Cthulhu_ 6y ago
There's probably a "misconceptions people have about e-mail addresses" post out there somewhere; the tl;dr is that so much is or will be allowed, for validation you should really only check if there's an @ in the address, for the rest just try to send an email and see if it bounces. But don't activate an account without e-mail verification. I got a random account on Deezer because someone signed up with my e-mail address; they probably got it off a spam list. But it kind of implies that Deezer didn't do e-mail verification before letting people use their platform.
diabeetusman 6y ago
I've had problems with sites accepting my .is email address too, probably due to similar logic.

jlokier 6y ago

> their "policy" was to allow 3, 4, or 5 characters as the last part of the domain Wow, no country codes? I could understand a restriction dating from before the great expansion of TLDs, but expect it to have a 2 in it.

jen729w 6y ago
Ah, apologies. My mistake, yes, 2 digits was fine. Actually I wonder then if it was 2, 3, or 4. I think it was, because I remember thinking that .wiki would have been okay. Either way. Arbitrary and stupid.

mysterydip 6y ago

I would bet on a number of sites this is because they all copied and pasted the same email validation regrex they found online when googling, which was made before TLDs could be that long, and they don't know how to fix it.

Cthulhu_ 6y ago

There's probably a "misconceptions people have about e-mail addresses" post out there somewhere; the tl;dr is that so much is or will be allowed, for validation you should really only check if there's an @ in the address, for the rest just try to send an email and see if it bounces. But don't activate an account without e-mail verification. I got a random account on Deezer because someone signed up with my e-mail address; they probably got it off a spam list. But it kind of implies that Deezer didn't do e-mail verification before letting people use their platform.

diabeetusman 6y ago

I've had problems with sites accepting my .is email address too, probably due to similar logic.