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Everyone knows what an email address is, right? (Quiz) (e-mail.wtf)

submitted 5 days ago by TheBigRoomXXL@leminal.space to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 61 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (9 children)

Question 5 is incorrect, name@example is a fully valid email address, even after RFC 2822

The spec of RFC 2822 defines an address (3.4.1) as:

local-part "@" domain

domain is defined (3.4.1) as:

domain = dot-atom / domain-literal / obs-domain

dot-atom is defined (3.2.4) as:

dot-atom = [CFWS] dot-atom-text [CFWS]
dot-atom-text = 1*atext *("." 1*atext)

1*atext meaning at least 1 alphanumeric character, followed by *("." 1*atext) meaning at least 0 "." 1*atext

If tomorrow, google decided to use its google top-level domain as an email domain, it would be perfectly valid, as could any other company owning top-level domains

Google even owns a gmail TLD so I wouldn't even be surprised if they decided to use it

[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

I didn't understand this one. How do you have a no dot domain? Like you need to distinguish from example.com or example.wtf

Edit: do you mean if you own .google you can have your email@google address?

[–] DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 days ago

Yes, the top-level domain is still just a domain. I'm not aware of any public Internet services which are reachable from a TLD directly, and it's strongly discouraged by ICANN, but there isn't any technical limitation preventing e.g. someone at Verisign from setting up example@com.

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