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Re:This is a valid domain name (remove www) by eadler on Thursday June 09, 2022 @11:15PM (#31689569)
n@ai is also a valid email address. Owned by a guy named Ian.
Re:This is a valid domain name (remove www) by mnutt on Friday June 10, 2022 @01:54PM (#31697320)
A long time back I entertained the idea of buying hc.im and using the email address [email protected]. (my name is michael) Perhaps making business cards with a laser cutout so I could turn the card over if it wasn't apparent. But two-letter im domains are a very expensive ongoing cost so it didn't seem worth it for the gimmick.
Re:This is a valid domain name (remove www) by LeoPanthera on Thursday June 09, 2022 @11:39PM (#31689723)
I have a very short email address (in the form [email protected]) and I haven't found anywhere that doesn't accept it - except for humans, who often refuse to believe it is real and will insist on a longer one.

(I have a backup longer one.)

Re:This is a valid domain name (remove www) by BrandoElFollito on Friday June 10, 2022 @03:39AM (#31691218)
I have a similar one and it has been rejected many times. I still write to the company but nobody gives a shit. I also tried on twitter.

Surprisingly people are fine with it, I think that this is thanks to social media handlers such as @wazoo - people group all these together as "email and such"

Re:This is a valid domain name (remove www) by kordlessagain on Thursday June 09, 2022 @11:33PM (#31689685)
I suppose it should be possible to get an MX record to work with a root domain, but that person that has it would have to probably work for or be the owner.
Re:This is a valid domain name (remove www) by captn3m0 on Friday June 10, 2022 @01:29AM (#31690398)
MX records fallback to A records, so ~10ish TLDs work this way already.
Re:This is a valid domain name (remove www) by bombcar on Thursday June 09, 2022 @11:37PM (#31689716)
sun@. would likely blow up even the best email checking regexes.
Re:This is a valid domain name (remove www) by theseobosscom on Thursday June 09, 2022 @11:15PM (#31689575)
creative!