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From: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au>
To: Victor Sudakov <vas@mpeks.tomsk.su>
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In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 525, Issue 3, Message: 31
On Wed, 25 Jun 2014 15:43:57 +0700 Victor Sudakov <vas@mpeks.tomsk.su> wrote:
 > Bernt Hansson wrote:
 > > >> I recently ran across devio.us as a shell provider from BSDNow
 > > >
 > > > The people at devio.us must be crazy. I have tried to sign up out of
 > > > curiosity, and their web registration form replied that 'Email field
 > > > contains invalid characters'. What's invalid about vas@mpeks.tomsk.su ?
 > > >
 > > >
 > > .su?
 > 
 > Which character is invalid? "s", "u" or "." ?
 > 
 > Seriously, with the abundance of newfangled TLDs like .catholic or
 > .black, who in the world can have anything against .su ?

The following errors were encountered:
    * Email field contains invalid characters

It doesn't like my smithi.id.au address either, and after I'd written 
such a polite 'why I want an account' story .. so if he's picking on 
Ruskies, he's picking on Aussies too :)

I wonder if .us addresses are even available outside the US?  Major 
subdomains of .us include US states for example, and schools and such.

You can't register an .id.au domain unless an individual resident in 
Australia; the DNS hasn't yet entirely been taken over by corporations.

Of course, if I could only afford .everything I could rule the world ..

cheers, Ian