RFC 4367:What's in a Name: False Assumptions about...
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email address


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... Domain names are most often used in identifiers used by application protocols. The most well known include email addresses and URIs, such as the HTTP ...


... company name maps to a server run by that company. They might assume that an email from a email address in the .gov TLD is actually from a government employee. They might assume that the content obtained from a web server ...



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