• mobotsar@sh.itjust.works
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      2 days ago

      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.

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      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.

    • Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      you could also send mails within your local network, the hostname just has to resolve and have a mail service running