Does anybody know which domains to search for (other than ".mil") to look for military addresses posting to a web form?
Clarification: we're offering a discount to our customers, and we really only have time to cough up an email address regex which can fit into our existing system.
This is on LAMP.
As far as I know, .mil is the only on that is officially supported by the US Government, but not 100% sure.
Depending on what you want, you would have to keep an eye out for sites such as this as well - http://www.usmilitary.com/
.mil seems to be the only official military email extension, however I believe they also use .edu for their Academy email addresses.
Hi -- does anybody know which domains to search for (other than ".mil") to look for military addresses posting to a web form?
I don't understand. What you're basically asking here, is what are us military domains ? Right ?
If I understood wrongly, and you're searching for ways of parsing or matching email adresses, then several regex methods for that have already been posted on SO, so I guess finding them shouldn't prove too difficult.
It would more than likely depend on the command that the person is associated with. .mil for pure military email addresses, .gov for sometype of goverment entitiy that they're associated with, or even .edu as someone else mentioned for educational instutions. It's also quite possible that people could have .com, .org or even .net addresses.
Unless you know for sure that a person will be posting to your webform with a military address, I think you might find it somewhat difficult to determine the authenticity of an indivdual just through an email address' domain.
Good luck in your project.