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A researcher bought noreply.net. Companies started sending him secrets. (arstechnica.com)

submitted 5 days ago by schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's still a stupid solution with all sorts of 'code smells' and bad design, but the least they could do in a case like that is use @example.com.

[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Is example.com the only reserved dead domain by icann? Just curious

Edit: seems like so. Though there are some reserved TLDs as well

https://www.iana.org/domains/reserved

[–] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

Oooh, looking at RFC2606 (mentioned by your link), the .invalid TLD seems like an appropriate choice here.

(Changing "deleted" users' emails to an invalid TLD still isn't the right solution, though.)