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. 

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CoFounder, CTO
.CLUB DOMAINS LLC.
100 SE 3rd Ave, Suite 1310
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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