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Re:Taking control of all .io domains with a targeted registr... by Mithorium on Monday July 10, 2017 @10:27PM (#14741182)
How about setting MX records for .google so you can have name@google emails
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Re:Taking control of all .io domains with a targeted registr... by CydeWeys on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @12:11AM (#14741520)
We also have .gmail, so you can imagine some clever possibilities with that.

God knows how widely a "ben@google" email address would work though. I'm going to guess not very.

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Re:Taking control of all .io domains with a targeted registr... by Mithorium on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @01:16AM (#14741731)
True, I imagine a lot of software wouldn't know how to handle an email without a dot in the domain part

That and apparently ICANN would frown upon such an implementation [1]

[1] https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2013-08-30-en

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Re:Taking control of all .io domains with a targeted registr... by Endy on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @06:18AM (#14742904)
Wouldn't that work like the old Compuserve or Prodigy email addresses? And if it would, wouldn't most email clients have to have "back-compatibility" with it?
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Re:Taking control of all .io domains with a targeted registr... by brongondwana on Monday July 10, 2017 @11:30PM (#14741379)
There's far too much software that won't accept that, sadly.
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