Defanged email at

A "defanged" email address is an email address that has been modified to remove any special characters or symbols that could be used to inject malicious code or exploit vulnerabilities.

In a defanged email address, the following characters are typically replaced:

• @ is replaced with [at]
• . is replaced with [dot]
• ( and ) are removed
• = and + are removed

For example, the email address [email protected] would be defanged to john[dot]doe[at]example[dot]com.

Defanging an email address is often done as a security measure to prevent email addresses from being used in phishing attacks or to prevent malicious code from being injected into an email address.