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When github used to host "pages" under github.com I remember registering "blog.github.com" (and reporting obviously). If you take the social-engineering into account the list should be made long: login, support, status, help, ... Just to say, the list could be made much longer (eg: login)
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Email addresses and domain names are case-ignoring so you should never allow usernames that differ only in case. Allowing only lower case is an easy way to do this.
The username part of an email address can actually be case sensitive, and this has been known to cause problems with some systems (e.g. https://airmail.tenderapp.com/help/discussions/287/113-case-... ).
Edit: for similar reasons to blog./login./support. etc. (just read other comments)
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The username part of an email address can actually be case sensitive, and this has been known to cause problems with some systems (e.g. https://airmail.tenderapp.com/help/discussions/287/113-case-... ).
So instead of converting to lowercase, store them with case preserved but do a case insensitive uniqueness check (and probably allow any case for login).
Seriously. domainlocalhost.com.
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The username part of an email address can actually be case sensitive, and this has been known to cause problems with some systems (e.g. https://airmail.tenderapp.com/help/discussions/287/113-case-... ).
So instead of converting to lowercase, store them with case preserved but do a case insensitive uniqueness check (and probably allow any case for login).
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So instead of converting to lowercase, store them with case preserved but do a case insensitive uniqueness check (and probably allow any case for login).
or just force all lowercase and keep the support burden lower and save yourself a ton of trouble when dealing with foreign systems. Add a rule on incoming e-mail to convert all addresses for the local domain to lowercase to complete the package.
When github used to host "pages" under github.com I remember registering "blog.github.com" (and reporting obviously). If you take the social-engineering into account the list should be made long: login, support, status, help, ... Just to say, the list could be made much longer (eg: login)
Seems PayPal also missed this memo: https://www.paypal.me/support https://www.paypal.me/download https://www.paypal.me/signup