- From: Stephane Saux <ssaux@sfgate.com>
- Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:38:36 -0700
- To: www-validator@w3.org
The feed validator reports a validation error whenever it considers an email address to be invalid. In particular some checking of the top-level domain name is performed. After some investigation, I've concluded that the validator will accept anything with a top-level domain name that has 2 to 4 characters: http://www.sfgate.com/test/ssaux/feed-one-topdomain.xml http://www.sfgate.com/test/ssaux/feed-two-topdomain.xml http://www.sfgate.com/test/ssaux/feed-four-topdomain.xml http://www.sfgate.com/test/ssaux/feed-five-topdomain.xml However, the list of top-level domain names include some that have more than four characters, including "travel" and "museum" (and some realy wacky ones: 'XN--11B5BS3A9AJ6G') So the validator could be both stricter (only accept 2-3-and 4-letter top domain name in the list,) and more tolerant (a corollary, accept longer top-level domain name.) The list of top-level-domain name maintain by ICANN is available here: http://data.iana.org/TLD/tlds-alpha-by-domain.txt http://www.icann.org/registries/top-level-domains.htm regards, Stephane. NOTE: Whenever possible, give the address of the document you were checking. -- Stephane Saux Technical Director ssaux@sfgate.com 415-777-7749 http://sfgate.com
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