How can we prevent invalid domain from being entered into the email address field?

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How can we prevent invalid domain from being entered into the email address field?
example:
test@gmale.com

Posted 7-Oct-12 20:24pm

Mannava Siva Aditya

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 8-Oct-12 3:26am

What makes you think that this domain is invalid? It could be a valid domain used for mail, for example...
--SA

Mannava Siva Aditya 8-Oct-12 3:37am

If not this try to enter an invalid mail address with invalid domain.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 8-Oct-12 13:34pm

Do you mean "invalid" as not represented by DNS. Is so, try to resolve IP by domain name using DNS. After all, when you obtain it, ping it. I think this is the most guarantee you can possibly have.
--SA

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You cannot prevent tha. You can check the text entered by e.g. trying to resolve an IP address for that. But it still be actually invalid: many domains were registered just to take money from those who want to use it - you can see that when you enter an address in the browser and a typo happens.

Posted 7-Oct-12 20:34pm

Bernhard Hiller

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-08T07:43:00

Please see my comment to the question. First, you need to try to resolve IPs via DNS using the domain name using the class System.Net.Dns:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.dns.gethostaddresses.aspx[^].

You can also ping the IPs using the class System.Net.NetworkInformation.Ping:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.networkinformation.ping.aspx[^].

You can find some code sample here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3689728/ping-a-hostname-on-the-network[^].

The successful ping does not proof the domain is valid as a mail delivery agent; and the failed ping does not proof the e-mail is not served at this domain, as the domain could be out of service for a short period of time. It just give you an extra criterion for validity, which is itself does not have strictly 100% validity, which is probably impossible with the present day mail delivery system we all use.

—SA