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[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

I didn't understand this one. How do you have a no dot domain? Like you need to distinguish from example.com or example.wtf

Edit: do you mean if you own .google you can have your email@google address?

[–] DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago

Yes, the top-level domain is still just a domain. I'm not aware of any public Internet services which are reachable from a TLD directly, and it's strongly discouraged by ICANN, but there isn't any technical limitation preventing e.g. someone at Verisign from setting up example@com.

[–] mobotsar@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

In response to your edit.

Yes, or countries could use their cctld, e.g. email@us or noreply@uk.

Or any tld owner could do the same with theirs, of course.

[–] Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

you could also send mails within your local network, the hostname just has to resolve and have a mail service running