Re:The Correct Way to Validate Email Addresses
by vidarh on Thursday September 08, 2016 @01:26AM
(#12450488)
I co-founded the company that set up the ".name" TLD as part of the first batch of new TLDs back in 2001, and we had no ends of problems because of that.
A lot of people either had hardcoded lists, or they checked the length and refused TLDs longer than 3 characters. We kept e-mailing people about it, and kept getting messages back from people who had "fixed" it by adding just us (we'd generally have pointed people to articles listing other new TLDs too, to make it clear to them that this wasn't just one TLD), or increasing the limit to 4 characters... We quickly gave up on trying to get these people to stop having useless checks and settled for just getting them to accept ours.
It's quite shocking people still haven't learnt even after the number of expansions since.
A lot of people either had hardcoded lists, or they checked the length and refused TLDs longer than 3 characters. We kept e-mailing people about it, and kept getting messages back from people who had "fixed" it by adding just us (we'd generally have pointed people to articles listing other new TLDs too, to make it clear to them that this wasn't just one TLD), or increasing the limit to 4 characters... We quickly gave up on trying to get these people to stop having useless checks and settled for just getting them to accept ours.
It's quite shocking people still haven't learnt even after the number of expansions since.