Hi Don,

Spotify has got Communication department in Berlin. I reach out to them tomorrow.

Lars

Von: ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org [mailto:ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org] Im Auftrag von Don Hollander
Gesendet: Sonntag, 5. März 2017 19:19
An: Andre Schappo <A.Schappo@lboro.ac.uk>
Cc: ua-discuss <UA-discuss@icann.org>
Betreff: Re: [UA-discuss] Spotify

Wow!!!

Does anyone know anyone at Spotify?

We could do a case study.

Don

On 6/03/2017, at 4:02 AM, Andre Schappo <A.Schappo@lboro.ac.uk> wrote:

I have done a little analysis of and experimentation with Spotify.

experimentation:

I have setup my Spotify account with a Japanese Katakana username, a Chinese hanzi email address and a Korean hangeul password. Native script forms and not romanised forms. It works!!! How cool is that😀

analysis:

Spotify uses google mail. The following is an extract from my terminal session.

苹果电脑 ~: host spotify.com
spotify.com has address 194.132.198.149
spotify.com has address 194.132.197.198
spotify.com has address 194.132.198.198
spotify.com mail is handled by 10 ASPMX4.GOOGLEMAIL.com.
spotify.com mail is handled by 5 ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.com.
spotify.com mail is handled by 10 ASPMX5.GOOGLEMAIL.com.
spotify.com mail is handled by 10 ASPMX2.GOOGLEMAIL.com.
spotify.com mail is handled by 1 ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.com.
spotify.com mail is handled by 5 ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.com.
spotify.com mail is handled by 10 ASPMX3.GOOGLEMAIL.com.

I also checked with XgenPlus EAI tester https://eai.xgenplus.com/ using address support@spotify.com If you run the test yourself you will see the server advertising SMTPUTF8

So, this explains the Chinese email address part working, as google supports EAI.

André Schappo

Don Hollander

Universal Acceptance Steering Group

Skype: don_hollander