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Re: foo@bar.com is a real email address

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Post by mmastrac »

christoph wrote: post #3

Reminds me of: http://test.com/contact/contact_spam.htm I dread to think how many emails they get everyday. As a side note, looks like they copied HN's favicon.

The favicon issue is actually a Chrome bug. Sites that don't provide a favicon will sometimes end up with the favicon of the referrer.

Re: foo@bar.com is a real email address

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Post by christoph »

mmastrac wrote: post #11
christoph wrote: post #3

Reminds me of: http://test.com/contact/contact_spam.htm I dread to think how many emails they get everyday. As a side note, looks like they copied HN's favicon.

The favicon issue is actually a Chrome bug. Sites that don't provide a favicon will sometimes end up with the favicon of the referrer.

It's not identical, just looks like the same orange with a single white letter in the middle, only noticed when clicking between the two just how similar they were.

Wasn't aware of the Chrome bug though, thanks.

Re: foo@bar.com is a real email address

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Post by shaggyfrog »

lanstein wrote: post #14
nirvana wrote: post #5

For future reference, the example.com domain is maintained for the purpose of documentation, etc. Thus foo@example.com might be a better address to use, especially in examples.

.com, .net, and .org are all reserved for this purpose.

Just to add a source, it's all in RFC 2606 section 3: http://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2606.txt

Re: foo@bar.com is a real email address

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Post by vog »

I thought this is basic knowledge of everyone technically engaged in Internet stuff. But apparently, this isn't the case, despite its well-known and very readable documentation! [1] It says:

1) There are exactly 3 domains the IANA keeps free for that purpose:

    example.com
    example.net
    example.org
2) In addition, all domains under the following 3 top level domains can be used freely for that purpose:

    *.test
    *.example
    *.invalid
3) The domains under the following top level domain have some special meaning (should point to loopback IPs only):

    *.localhost
Everything else is either registered, or might be registered by somebody in the future. Don't (mis)use those names unless you own them!

Unfortunately, this kind of criticism is not always welcome on HN. (for example, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3129459 was scored -1)

[1] RFC 2606, http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2606

Re: foo@bar.com is a real email address

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Post by smokinn »

Interesting that this guy could write a quick script that could take out almost any mail server on the web for more or less free.

I imagine only a few of the big guys (yahoo, microsoft, google) could handle large unexpected volumes without hiccup.

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