Hi all,

this is great work by .club and Donuts. Is there a possibility to match the results and make them available in a Google Docs?

Thank you!

Lars

 

Von: ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org [mailto:ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org] Im Auftrag von Alina Syunkova
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 18. Mai 2016 19:32
An: Dirk Bhagat <dirk@get.club>
Cc: UA-discuss@icann.org
Betreff: Re: [UA-discuss] [UA-Discuss] Acceptance Tests done for sites

 

Hi Dirk,

 

Similar work was started at Donuts back in 2015. I am continuing some of that work.

 

We began surveying the Internet's highest-profile websites, particularly the Alexa 500, for their capacity to accept New gTLD email addresses when registering a new user account. While Donuts tested only email addresses in ASCII, I am now testing in non-ASCII as well.

 

Recently drew some numbers off 150 of the websites - only one-third of the list we set out to test.

 

- a short New gTLD (.tech - 4 characters) gets accepted 89% of the time

- a long New gTLD (.technology - 5+ characters) gets accepted closer to 70% of the time

- a .com email address that contains non-ASCII characters left of the dot gets accepted closer to 40% of the time

- an email address that contains non-ASCII characters (e.g., Thai, Arabic) both left and right of the dot rarely gets accepted, i.e., about 5% of the time

 

In other words, for this type of UA testing, two of the factors that appear to matter are:

 

- TLD length (ccTLD or 3 characters versus 4 or 5+ characters)

- SLD and TLD: ASCII or non-ASCII? To the left of the dot only, or non-ASCII characters on both sides?

 

 

Thank you,

Alina

 

On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 8:05 AM, Dirk Bhagat <dirk@get.club> wrote:

Hi Andrew

Good to hear. 

Thanks. 


--
Dirk Bhagat

CoFounder, CTO
.CLUB DOMAINS LLC.
100 SE 3rd Ave, Suite 1310
Fort Lauderdale, Fl, 33394
o: 954.530.2580 m: 416.839.4945
Get.club

 

On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 10:18 AM, Robertson, Andrew <Andrew.Robertson@edelman.com> wrote:

Hi Dirk,

 

Thanks very much for this information, which is quite useful. We'll aim to build this into the proof points we're developing as part of the messaging. 

 

I may have a coupe of questions for you, which I'll come back to you on directly. 

 

Best,

Andrew

 

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From: ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org <ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org> on behalf of Dirk Bhagat <dirk@get.club>
Sent: 18 May 2016 14:15:55
To: UA-discuss@icann.org
Subject: [UA-discuss] [UA-Discuss] Acceptance Tests done for sites

 

Hi All

 

As part of .Club's effort prior to UASG,  .club had hand tested around 600 popular  sites [mostly from Alexa]  for their ability to accept .club email addresses.

 

Here is the testing spreadsheet we used:

 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WIhKvD7mvK7xHyRWGNK1AcDTK7Yhdt69RXuPKcpTIZA/edit?usp=sharing

Sheet1 email@ nic. club verification Domain, Status, Account created, Receiving, Sending, Reason Free E-mail providers, Statuses 10minutemail. com, Can' t Test, Does not require email, Passed 123greetings. com, Passed, Yes, Yes, Failed 365greetings. com, Failed, No, Set up: not successful(...

 

 

 

This spreadsheet breaks the list down into a few categories:

 

-. Free Email providers

-. Top Retailers

-. Travel

-.  Email Newsletter Services

-.  Music Services

-.  Social Networks

 

Of the 600 sites, roughly 65% were confirmed to have passed, 13% confirmed to have failed, and 21% could not be tested for one reason or another. 

 

Although there is a lot more work to be done, I believe it's a good starting point. 

 


--
Dirk Bhagat

CoFounder, CTO
.CLUB DOMAINS LLC.
100 SE 3rd Ave, Suite 1310
Fort Lauderdale, Fl, 33394
o: 954.530.2580 m: 416.839.4945
Get.club