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		Mithorium on July 11, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Taking control of all .io domains with a targeted ... True, I imagine a lot of software wouldn't know how to handle an email without a dot in the domain part That and apparently ICANN would frown upon such an implementation [1] [1] https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2013-08-30-en

Endy on July 11, 2017 [–]

Wouldn't that work like the old Compuserve or Prodigy email addresses? And if it would, wouldn't most email clients have to have "back-compatibility" with it?

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