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You recently joined a small startup as a junior developer. The product managers have come to you for help improving new user sign-ups for the company's flagship mobile app.

There are lots of invalid and incomplete sign-up attempts crashing the app. Before creating new accounts, you suggest standardizing validation checks by writing reusable Python functions to validate names, emails, passwords, etc. The managers love this idea and task you with coding core validation functions for improving sign-ups. It's your job to write these custom functions to check all user inputs to ensure they meet minimum criteria before account creation to reduce crashes.

# Re-run this cell
# Preloaded data for validating email domain.
top_level_domains = [
    ".org",
    ".net",
    ".edu",
    ".ac",
    ".gov",
    ".com",
    ".io"
]
# 1: Create a function that validates the input name is a string and greater than 2 characters.

def validate_name(name):
    # Check that datatype of the variable, is what is expected. A string.
    if type(name) != str:
        return False   
    # Check if character is less than two characters, if so return false.
    elif len(name) <= 2: 
            return False
    # Name passed all checks
    else: 
        return True 
      
# 2: Create a function that validates the email is in the correct format.

def validate_email(email):
    # If the email does not include the @ symbol return False.
    if '@' not in email:
        return False     
    # Loop through domain string in the top_level_domains list.
    for domain in top_level_domains:
        # Check if the domain is included in the email.
        if domain in email:
        # If the domain is in the email, return a boolean with a value of True.
            return True
     # If code reaches this point, domain did not match, so return False to indicate invalid email 
    return False