ICANN Approves generic top-level domains

Re:ICANN Approves generic top-level domains by heyimfromreddit on Monday June 20, 2011 @04:46AM (#2673418)

Funny, but email validations should already just check that the address contains an @ symbol and leave it at that.

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Re:ICANN Approves generic top-level domains by mdpm on Monday June 20, 2011 @05:07AM (#2673456)

uh, nope. Email validation should check there's a valid MX record for the domain in question, and leave it at that.

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Re:ICANN Approves generic top-level domains by Luyt on Monday June 20, 2011 @06:21AM (#2673588)

Or a valid address record. Mailers fall back to 'A' records in the absence of a 'MX' record.

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Re:ICANN Approves generic top-level domains by mdpm on Monday June 20, 2011 @06:38AM (#2673627)

yes, and we could continue into checking something is actually listening for mail there, etc. But you get my point :)

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Re:ICANN Approves generic top-level domains by jannes on Monday June 20, 2011 @04:58AM (#2673438)

They should also check that neither part is empty. But other than that you are right.

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