Network Solutions and Broken E-mail Addresses

Sat Aug 9 00:56:04 UTC 2003

	Unfortunately I'd have to say NetSol is not alone on this as a
vast majority of the sites I've had to enter an email address will not
accept a user+detail at domain format... I find it to be quite annoying
that I can use the format as it helps with filtering of email and is
completely valid according to the current RFCs wrt mail.

	Regards,
	Jeremy

On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 07:53:15PM -0400, Leo Bicknell wrote:
> 
> Sometime recently Network Solutions seems to have stopped accepting
> "+" as a valid character in an e-mail address.  Yes, I did open a
> ticket via their customer service people, and was given the reply
> that I needed to use another e-mail address.  Per their web form,
> the only acceptable addresses are [a-zA-Z-_.]+@[a-zA-Z-_.]+ (no,
> they don't put it in a regex, but I did for clarity).
> 
> Evidence suggests some Network Solutions people read this list, but
> are unlikely to reply to queries such as mine.  That's fine, but if
> one of you could suggest to the people in the right place that there
> are many valid e-mail addresses not in that form it would be great.
> In particular I'm trying to use bicknell+whois at ufp.org, which I have
> used for years.
> 
> Note to all, they also sent out a recent note that ICANN requires
> valid contact info for a domain, and if you don't have it they can
> "unregister" your domain.  Well, their web form flags my e-mail as
> "invalid", even though it works just fine (and it's the address
> they used to send me the notice).  If you use a e-mail that doesn't
> match the regex above you might want to complain, or change it, or
> both.
> 
> A private e-mail from someone at netsol will yeild the ticket number
> I opened with standard customer service.
> 
> -- 
>        Leo Bicknell - bicknell at ufp.org - CCIE 3440
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