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		dekz on Sept 6, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Stop validating email addresses with your complex ... But grandma@aol is a valid email address (if aol were to become a proper TLD with an MX record).

jph on Sept 6, 2012 [–]

Hahah yes you're correct. We do client-side auto-suggest on email validation, so we can ask "Did you mean to type grandma@aol.com"?

We have seen a real email address without any dot, and it routes successfully to a TLD MX exactly like you describe so yes, it does happen. :)

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