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No. The number of users who have a real email with no TLD is far less than the number of users who will accidentally type an email with no TLD if you don’t validate on the front end.

I’m here to help 99.9% of users sign up correctly, not to be completely spec-compliant for the 0.1% who think they’re special.

Let us recite the email validator’s oath:

If it has something before the @, something between the @ and the ., and something after the ., it’s valid enough.

This is very important if you’re a dad. You can’t just start reading the book straightaway. You gotta read it upside down in a nasal nonsense voice until your kid yells for you to stop. Then act confused. Then when they turn it around for you, open it from the last page and say “the end,” then close it again. Then, depending on the vibe, you might say, “oh, I get it now” and start reading upside down again. On a good day you can keep it going for a few minutes before you actually start reading the book.

It’s peak comedy. No one has ever been as funny as a dad pretending they don’t know how to read a book