Skip to content

Comment on Stop validating email addresses with your complex regexparent

Comments

But grandma@aol is a valid email address (if aol were to become a proper TLD with an MX record).

Hahah yes you're correct. We do client-side auto-suggest on email validation, so we can ask "Did you mean to type grandma@aol.com"?

We have seen a real email address without any dot, and it routes successfully to a TLD MX exactly like you describe so yes, it does happen. :)

AboutSource Built by g1lg1l

Hackerly is an independent reader for Hacker News, built on the public HN API. Not affiliated with Y Combinator.