I didn't and you don't need either.

There are different approaches you can find your personal answer, my starting perspective is the file system used by DOS 1.0 (SFN) which is well defined - but doesn't give us a final answer (one dot is allowed and everything after that is an extension... but an empty file name part isn't permitted).
Would be interesting which 8.3 name gets stored as a FAT entry when creating a .htaccess file (could be also checked using something like echo %~s1).