Also as the registrant of one of those new fancy TLDs, much like the owner of this website (email.wtf), their own email addresses will fail those stupid email validation checks that only believe in example@example.[com|net|org]

Shitty websites will fail "example@email.wtf", guaranteed - despite it being 100% valid AND potentially live.

Source - I have a ".family" domain for my email server. Totally functional, but some shitty websites refuse to believe it.

[–] notarobot@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago (7 children)

I'm not sure I blame the sites. The spec is so complex that it's not even possible to know which regex to use

[–] bignose@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

The spec is so complex that it’s not even possible to know which regex to use

Yes. Almost like a regex is not the correct tool to use, and instead they should use a well-tested library function to validate email addresses.

[–] notarobot@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Exactly! But its not obvios. So most of those shitty websites don't even know they have a problem.

Then there are also people ignoring it on purpose. I once read a reddit comment saying 'well of your address looks like "John wick 🐶❤️"@2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334 I don't event want your email in my DB because oit will break something

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