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Re^5: Email::Valid rejecting emails @example.com today

by jcb (Parson)
on Sep 06, 2019 at 04:17 UTC ( [id://11105705]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^4: Email::Valid rejecting emails @example.com today
in thread Email::Valid rejecting emails @example.com today

Read section 2 of RFC2606, which describes the purpose of reserving domain names and reserves a few TLDs. Section 3 describes "example.com" and others as "also" reserved to be "used as examples". That means that they should be treated like the top-level domain ".example." and are intended for use in documentation. There is no reason that a documentation placeholder domain should even resolve.

In fact, I recall some controversy when the .COM registrar put up a page on example.com, complete with ads, during one of the Internet bubbles.

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Re^6: Email::Valid rejecting emails @example.com today
by Anonymous Monk on Sep 06, 2019 at 04:40 UTC
    How does that RFC section trump ICANN? ICANN is the boss. A purpose is not a limitation :)

      Did you read your own link? That example domains resolve at all is only a means to provide an explanation to unknowing users. And ICANN does not get to do whatever it wants: ICANN is constrained by protocol rules, which RFC6761 takes pains to explicitly reiterate.

        Did you read your own link? That example domains resolve at all is only a means to provide an explanation to unknowing users. And ICANN does not get to do whatever it wants: ICANN is constrained by protocol rules, which RFC6761 takes pains to explicitly reiterate.

        jcb: Which part of that link says that example.com cannot resolve? That example.com cannot have a MX record? Quote the line

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