Question

I just read an article which states:

Internet domain addresses opened up to wave of new suffixes

Internet naming board approves huge
expansion of approved domain
extensions with .hotel, .bank, or
.sport auctions likely.

Twenty-six years after .com was first
unveiled to the world, officials have
swept away tight regulations governing
website naming, opening up a whole
world of personalised web address
suffixes.

But… I just learned how to validate email addresses by checking (among others variables) the number of characters used after the dot (i.e., .com, .fr, etc.). What now?

Analysts say they expect 500 to 1,000
domain suffixes, mostly for companies
and products looking to stamp their
mark on web addresses, but also for
cities and generic names such as .bank
or .hotel.

Maybe this is not a problem. But how are we going to validate email addresses? What’s the plan?

Answer 1

IMO, the answer is to screw email validation beyond <anything>@<anything>, and deal with failed delivery attempts and errors in the email address (both of which are going to happen anyway).

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• How far should one take e-mail address validation?