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 <http://www.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
+44 7921 588 770 ------------------------------ *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/1WIhKvD7mvK7xHyRWGNK1AcDTK7Yhdt69RXuP...
<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WIhKvD7mvK7xHyRWGNK1AcDTK7Yhdt69RXuP...> TESTING email@nic.club.xlsx <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WIhKvD7mvK7xHyRWGNK1AcDTK7Yhdt69RXuP...> docs.google.com 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 <http://www.get.club>