Why msn.comm validates?

[lameei]

I have the following code:

import validators

url = 'msn.comm'

if (validators.domain(url)) or (validators.url(url)):
    print("VALIDATION PASSED")
else:
    print("Please insert a domain name in this format: example.com")

And the msn.comm validates. Why is that?

[jbnance]

The validator merely checks that the subject is a valid domain syntactically - it does not have a list of valid TLDs nor does it attempt to resolve the domain. Syntactically 'msn.comm' is valid (as is 'fdsfds.fsaf.asfdsa.fdsa.fsdfsa.fsadfsa', for example).

[lameei]

This is weird. So what is the propose of validation here?

[jbnance]

It is validating the format just as many validators do (the email validator doesn't send an email to make sure the account exists). I would agree that it would be nice to have it check against a list of TLDs. Perhaps the maintainer could pull from here regularly:

https://data.iana.org/TLD/tlds-alpha-by-domain.txt