diff --git a/daemon/src/feedstore.rs b/daemon/src/feedstore.rs
index bb1874e..d643d4f 100644
--- a/daemon/src/feedstore.rs
+++ b/daemon/src/feedstore.rs
@@ -1,19 +1,110 @@
-//! The feed directory: one `twtxt.txt` per username under `<data>/feeds/`.
-//! The path is the verified smolmail username, so usernames are validated
+//! The feed directory: one `twtxt.txt` per feed under `<data>/feeds/`.
+//! The path is a slug derived from the verified smolmail address, validated
 //! before ever touching the filesystem.
+//!
+//! Two guards live here and must not be conflated. `valid_username` is the
+//! *nick* rule, narrow on purpose because a nick lands in `# nick =` metadata
+//! that third-party twtxt clients read. `valid_slug` is the *path* rule, wider
+//! because a remote author's slug carries their host.
 
 use std::io;
 use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};
 
 use smolboid_core::Feed;
 
-/// 1-30 bytes of `[a-z0-9-]`: a valid feed path segment and nick.
+/// 1-30 bytes of `[a-z0-9-]`: the nick rule. Deliberately unchanged and
+/// deliberately not the path rule — see the module header.
 pub fn valid_username(name: &str) -> bool {
     !name.is_empty()
         && name.len() <= 30
         && name.bytes().all(|c| c.is_ascii_lowercase() || c.is_ascii_digit() || c == b'-')
 }
 
+/// Separators a local part may carry, per SPEC.md sec 3.
+const SEPARATORS: &[u8] = b"._-";
+
+/// The feed path slug: a bare local part for an author on our own server,
+/// `local@host` or `local@host:port` for anyone else.
+///
+/// This is the path guard, and it is independent of both `valid_username` and
+/// fumi's address grammar so it cannot widen when either of those does. Before
+/// it existed a path could not contain a dot, which is *why* traversal was
+/// unreachable; now dots are legal and every rejection below is load-bearing.
+pub fn valid_slug(name: &str) -> bool {
+    if name.is_empty() || name.len() > 200 || !name.is_ascii() {
+        return false;
+    }
+    // Lowercase is required rather than normalised. smolmail lowercases
+    // usernames and DNS is case-insensitive, so an uppercase slug is a caller
+    // bug — and folding it here would let two spellings race for one file on a
+    // case-insensitive filesystem.
+    if name.bytes().any(|c| c.is_ascii_uppercase()) {
+        return false;
+    }
+    let (local, rest) = match name.split_once('@') {
+        None => (name, None),
+        Some((local, rest)) => (local, Some(rest)),
+    };
+    if !valid_local(local) {
+        return false;
+    }
+    let Some(rest) = rest else {
+        return true;
+    };
+    // A second `@` lands in `rest` and fails `valid_host`.
+    let (host, port) = match rest.split_once(':') {
+        None => (rest, None),
+        Some((host, port)) => (host, Some(port)),
+    };
+    valid_host(host) && port.is_none_or(valid_port)
+}
+
+/// SPEC.md sec 3's username grammar, wider than `valid_username`: a legal
+/// smolmail user such as `a.b` could not get a feed at all before this.
+fn valid_local(local: &str) -> bool {
+    let bytes = local.as_bytes();
+    if local.is_empty() || local.len() > 63 {
+        return false;
+    }
+    if !bytes
+        .iter()
+        .all(|c| c.is_ascii_lowercase() || c.is_ascii_digit() || SEPARATORS.contains(c))
+    {
+        return false;
+    }
+    if !bytes[0].is_ascii_alphanumeric() || !bytes[bytes.len() - 1].is_ascii_alphanumeric() {
+        return false;
+    }
+    // No two adjacent separators, which is also what rules out `..`.
+    !bytes
+        .windows(2)
+        .any(|w| SEPARATORS.contains(&w[0]) && SEPARATORS.contains(&w[1]))
+}
+
+fn valid_host(host: &str) -> bool {
+    if host.is_empty() || host.len() > 120 {
+        return false;
+    }
+    host.split('.').all(|label| {
+        let bytes = label.as_bytes();
+        !label.is_empty()
+            && label.len() <= 63
+            && bytes
+                .iter()
+                .all(|c| c.is_ascii_lowercase() || c.is_ascii_digit() || *c == b'-')
+            && bytes[0].is_ascii_alphanumeric()
+            && bytes[bytes.len() - 1].is_ascii_alphanumeric()
+    })
+}
+
+/// Never the default port: `Address::short()` omits 1961, so a slug carrying
+/// it would be a second spelling of an address that already has one.
+fn valid_port(port: &str) -> bool {
+    (1..=5).contains(&port.len())
+        && port.bytes().all(|c| c.is_ascii_digit())
+        && port.parse::<u16>().is_ok_and(|p| p != 1961)
+}
+
 #[derive(Clone)]
 pub struct FeedStore {
     root: PathBuf,
@@ -26,11 +117,18 @@ impl FeedStore {
         Ok(FeedStore { root })
     }
 
-    fn path(&self, username: &str) -> Result<PathBuf, String> {
-        if !valid_username(username) {
-            return Err(format!("invalid username `{username}`"));
+    fn path(&self, slug: &str) -> Result<PathBuf, String> {
+        if !valid_slug(slug) {
+            return Err(format!("invalid feed slug `{slug}`"));
         }
-        Ok(self.root.join(format!("{username}.txt")))
+        let path = self.root.join(format!("{slug}.txt"));
+        // Defence in depth: the grammar above is far wider than the original
+        // `[a-z0-9-]`, so check the join actually stayed in the feed directory
+        // rather than trusting the character rules alone.
+        if path.parent() != Some(self.root.as_path()) {
+            return Err(format!("feed slug `{slug}` escapes the feed directory"));
+        }
+        Ok(path)
     }
 
     /// The feed file's mtime for `Last-Modified`; missing feeds are epoch.
@@ -99,6 +197,87 @@ mod tests {
         assert!(!valid_username(&"a".repeat(31)));
     }
 
+    /// The path guard. Until `valid_slug` existed a dot could not appear in a
+    /// path, so traversal was structurally impossible; every rejection here is
+    /// now doing real work.
+    #[test]
+    fn slugs_gate_the_filesystem_path() {
+        for ok in [
+            "tobias",
+            "a-b2",
+            "a.b",              // legal smolmail user that had no feed before
+            "a_b",
+            "alice@other.org",
+            "alice@127.0.0.1:19641",
+            "alice@a1b2c3d4e5f6a7b8c9d0e1f2a3b4c5d6",  // an RNS destination hash
+            &"a".repeat(63),
+            &format!("a@{}.{}", "b".repeat(60), "c".repeat(59)),  // 120-byte host
+        ] {
+            assert!(valid_slug(ok), "should accept {ok:?}");
+        }
+        for bad in [
+            "",
+            "Tobias",                  // uppercase is refused, never folded
+            "ALICE@x.org",
+            "alice@OTHER.org",
+            "a@..",
+            "a@.x",
+            "a@x.",
+            "a@b@c",
+            "@a",
+            "a@",
+            "a/b",
+            "a%40b",                   // the encoded form never reaches here
+            "a@b:1961",                // short() omits the default port
+            "a@b:99999",
+            "a@b:0x10",
+            "a@b:",
+            "..",
+            "a..b",
+            "a._b",                    // two adjacent separators
+            ".a",
+            "a.",
+            "-a",
+            "a\u{0}b",
+            "a b",
+            "a@b c",
+            "héllo",
+            &"a".repeat(64),
+            &"a".repeat(201),
+            &format!("a@{}.{}", "b".repeat(60), "c".repeat(60)),  // 121, over the cap
+            &format!("a@{}", "b".repeat(64)),                             // one label over 63
+        ] {
+            assert!(!valid_slug(bad), "should reject {bad:?}");
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// The nick rule stays narrow even though the path rule widened; a nick
+    /// reaches `# nick =` metadata that other twtxt clients parse.
+    #[test]
+    fn the_nick_rule_did_not_widen_with_the_path_rule() {
+        for ok_as_path_only in ["a.b", "a_b", "alice@other.org", &"a".repeat(31)] {
+            assert!(!valid_username(ok_as_path_only), "nick must reject {ok_as_path_only:?}");
+        }
+        assert!(valid_slug("a.b") && valid_slug("alice@other.org"));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn remote_slugs_round_trip_through_the_store() {
+        let dir = std::env::temp_dir().join("smolboid-remote-slug-test");
+        let _ = std::fs::remove_dir_all(&dir);
+        let feeds = FeedStore::new(&dir).unwrap();
+        let slug = "alice@other.org";
+        feeds
+            .create(slug, "alice", slug, "https://smol.place", &[7u8; 32])
+            .unwrap();
+        assert!(feeds.exists(slug).unwrap());
+        assert_eq!(
+            feeds.load(slug).unwrap().meta("url"),
+            Some("https://smol.place/twtxt/alice@other.org.txt")
+        );
+        let _ = std::fs::remove_dir_all(&dir);
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn create_save_load_round_trip() {
         let dir = std::env::temp_dir().join("smolboid-feeds-test");
diff --git a/daemon/src/http.rs b/daemon/src/http.rs
index 937d971..035490a 100644
--- a/daemon/src/http.rs
+++ b/daemon/src/http.rs
@@ -140,8 +140,19 @@ fn matches_cache(headers: &[(String, String)], etag: &str, modified: i64) -> boo
 }
 
 fn username_of(path: &str) -> Option<String> {
-    let name = path.strip_prefix("/twtxt/")?.strip_suffix(".txt")?;
-    crate::feedstore::valid_username(name).then(|| name.to_owned())
+    let name = path.strip_prefix("/twtxt/")?;
+    // Checked before any decoding: a slug is exactly one path segment, and
+    // decoding first would let `%2f` smuggle a separator past this.
+    if name.contains('/') {
+        return None;
+    }
+    let name = name.strip_suffix(".txt")?;
+    // Only `%40` is decoded, and only literally, because some twtxt clients
+    // percent-encode the `@` of a remote slug. No other escape is decoded, so
+    // nothing else can reach the filesystem — `valid_slug` rejects a stray
+    // `%` outright.
+    let name = name.replace("%40", "@");
+    crate::feedstore::valid_slug(&name).then_some(name)
 }
 
 fn read_request(stream: &mut TcpStream) -> Option<Vec<u8>> {
@@ -288,6 +299,38 @@ mod tests {
         (feeds, format!("{addr}"))
     }
 
+    /// A remote author's slug carries their host, so the route has to serve
+    /// the literal `@` and the `%40` some clients send for it — and nothing
+    /// else percent-encoded.
+    #[test]
+    fn remote_slugs_serve_at_both_spellings() {
+        let feeds = FeedStore::new(&dir("remote")).unwrap();
+        let slug = "alice@other.org";
+        feeds.create(slug, "alice", slug, "https://x", &[9; 32]).unwrap();
+        let addr = format!("{}", start(feeds)).parse().unwrap();
+
+        for request in [
+            "GET /twtxt/alice@other.org.txt HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: x\r\n\r\n",
+            "GET /twtxt/alice%40other.org.txt HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: x\r\n\r\n",
+        ] {
+            let response = get(&addr, request);
+            assert!(response.starts_with("HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n"), "{request}\n{response}");
+            assert!(response.contains("# smol:author = alice@other.org\n"), "{response}");
+        }
+
+        // Only %40 is decoded. A separator must not arrive encoded.
+        for request in [
+            "GET /twtxt/alice%2Fother.org.txt HTTP/1.1\r\n\r\n",
+            "GET /twtxt/%2e%2e/etc/passwd.txt HTTP/1.1\r\n\r\n",
+            "GET /twtxt/alice@other.org/../tobias.txt HTTP/1.1\r\n\r\n",
+        ] {
+            assert!(
+                get(&addr, request).starts_with("HTTP/1.1 404"),
+                "{request} should 404"
+            );
+        }
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn serves_the_feed_with_the_planned_headers() {
         let (_, addr) = with_feed("headers");
@@ -439,7 +482,7 @@ mod tests {
     fn request_parsing_never_panics_and_gates_usernames() {
         let alphabet = [
             "GET", "HEAD", " ", "/twtxt/", ".txt", "..", "%2F", "\u{0}", "\r\n", ":", "a", "-",
-            "\u{e9}", "\r\n\r\n", "smol:mail ",
+            "\u{e9}", "\r\n\r\n", "smol:mail ", "@", "%40", ".", "_", "1961",
         ];
         let mut seed = 0x5eed_c0de_u64;
         for _ in 0..2000 {
@@ -451,9 +494,11 @@ mod tests {
             if let Some((_, path, _)) = parse_request(bytes) {
                 if let Some(name) = username_of(path) {
                     // Whatever the parser accepts must be path-safe.
-                    assert!(crate::feedstore::valid_username(&name), "{name:?}");
+                    assert!(crate::feedstore::valid_slug(&name), "{name:?}");
                     assert!(!name.contains('/'));
                     assert!(!name.contains('\u{0}'));
+                    assert!(!name.contains(".."));
+                    assert!(!name.contains('%'));
                 }
             }
         }