Re: validating email address "syntax"

[meovino@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Sorry, I was having a brain cramp.  You are absolutely right.

Mike E.





                    James Rich
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address "syntax"
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                    11/11/02 01:19 PM
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On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 meovino@estes-express.com wrote:

> pass my test.  I didn't know that a TLD had to be at least two
characters.
> x.com is registered by PayPal (http://www.samspade.org/t/lookat?a=x.com),
> so I always thought it was just one.
>
> Basically, I just want to check that there's some sort of TLD after the @
> and some sort of suffix after the @ (in addition to something before the
> @).

A TLD (Top Level Domain) is the last thing after the final dot.  So "com"
and "edu" are top level domains.  The "mydomain" in "mydomain.com" is not
a top level domain.

James Rich

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