Hi Don, all, If anyone has a contact at Twitter, please do share the same. We need to speak with them about linkification of certain new TLDs in tweets. Thanks, Shweta *[image: Description: Description: Radix.gif]* <http://radix.website> *Shweta Asher* Sr. Manager, Security, Compliance & Legal T: +91 (22) 3079 7500 Extn: 8522 Skype: shwetasahjwani On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 12:40 AM, Brent London <brentlondon@google.com> wrote:

Thanks Kurt, Don.

My point of contact at Yahoo replied yesterday evening, so I will continue the thread there. If that hits a wall, I'll follow up here!

With regards, Brent

On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 11:16 AM, <kurt@kjpritz.com> wrote:

...

Hi Don:

I wrote to my contact at Yahoo, who is in the legal department.

After trading emails, she asked that we provide a "short summary of the [email] issue that I can forward" to the right parities at Yahoo. (This leads me to think she has already made contacts within Yahoo.)

We could probably use a chapter of what Mark or Brent has already written. Can you select a paragraph or two that I can forward?

I hope this is helpful,

Kurt

--------- Original Message --------- Subject: [UA-discuss] Contacts at... From: "Don Hollander" <don.hollander@icann.org> Date: 10/1/15 11:44 pm To: "UA-discuss@icann.org" <UA-discuss@icann.org>

G’day all…

I’m hoping that you can help.

I'm currently looking for the following contacts:

- Yahoo - Someone who is familiar with their e-mail platform and plans for EAI - Adobe - Someone within their Flash Development Team - Mozilla - Someone within their Firefox team who’s working on Flash implementations - Twitter - Someone who is familiar with how they handle Linkifications

If you are such a person, or you personally know such a person - or even know someone who will know someone (3 degrees of separation) - can you please let me kn! ow off the list?

Thanks.

Don

don.hollander@icann.org

Hi, My issue is specific to one of our new gTLDs - .store. Domains ending in many new TLDs are automatically linkified when you tweet (I've tried this using twitter on my desktop browser), but domains ending in .store (among others) aren't. I was hoping to bring this issue to their attention. Any guidance you can provide to get in touch with the right folks would be much appreciated. Thanks, Shweta *[image: Description: Description: Radix.gif]* <http://radix.website> *Shweta Asher* Sr. Manager, Security, Compliance & Legal T: +91 (22) 3079 7500 Extn: 8522 Skype: shwetasahjwani On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 10:09 PM, M3 Sweatt <msweatt@microsoft.com> wrote:

For which products or apps do you need support new gTLDs on? Is there general guidance needed or specific issues?

We have contacts at Twitter and other companies, and can help you connect with the appropriate contacts. It may be good to aggregate/ consolidate technical asks such that companies could provide broad guidance.

*From: *Shweta Asher <shweta@radix.email> *Sent: *Monday, June 20, 2016 3:31 AM *To: *UA-discuss@icann.org *Subject: *Re: [UA-discuss] Contacts at...

Hi Don, all,

If anyone has a contact at Twitter, please do share the same. We need to speak with them about linkification of certain new TLDs in tweets.

Thanks, Shweta

*[image: Description: Description: Radix.gif]* <https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3a%2f%2fradix.websit...>

*Shweta Asher*

Sr. Manager, Security, Compliance & Legal

T: +91 (22) 3079 7500 Extn: 8522

Skype: shwetasahjwani

On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 12:40 AM, Brent London <brentlondon@google.com> wrote:

...

Thanks Kurt, Don.

My point of contact at Yahoo replied yesterday evening, so I will continue the thread there. If that hits a wall, I'll follow up here!

With regards, Brent

On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 11:16 AM, <kurt@kjpritz.com> wrote:

...

Hi Don:

I wrote to my contact at Yahoo, who is in the legal department.

After trading emails, she asked that we provide a "short summary of the [email] issue that I can forward" to the right parities at Yahoo. (This leads me to think she has already made contacts within Yahoo.)

We could probably use a chapter of what Mark or Brent has already written. Can you select a paragraph or two that I can forward?

I hope this is helpful,

Kurt

--------- Original Message --------- Subject: [UA-discuss] Contacts at... From: "Don Hollander" <don.hollander@icann.org> Date: 10/1/15 11:44 pm To: "UA-discuss@icann.org" <UA-discuss@icann.org>

G’day all…

I’m hoping that you can help.

I'm currently looking for the following contacts:

- Yahoo - Someone who is familiar with their e-mail platform and plans for EAI - Adobe - Someone within their Flash Development Team - Mozilla - Someone within their Firefox team who’s working on Flash implementations - Twitter - Someone who is familiar with how they handle Linkifications

If you are such a person, or you personally know such a person - or even know someone who will know someone (3 degrees of separation) - can you please let me kn! ow off the list?

Thanks.

Don

don.hollander@icann.org

Just so I understand. .store domain names are not linkified when the string is written as "domain.store"? What about if you add the prefix "http://" or "https://"? Dennis Sent from my iPhone On Jun 21, 2016, at 1:03 PM, M3 Sweatt via UA-discuss <ua-discuss@icann.org<mailto:ua-discuss@icann.org>> wrote: Thanks, this is helpful. Are there other gTLDs that run into issues? From: Shweta Asher<mailto:shweta@radix.email> Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2016 9:58 AM To: M3 Sweatt<mailto:msweatt@microsoft.com> Cc: UA-discuss@icann.org<mailto:UA-discuss@icann.org> Subject: Re: [UA-discuss] Contacts at... Hi, My issue is specific to one of our new gTLDs - .store. Domains ending in many new TLDs are automatically linkified when you tweet (I've tried this using twitter on my desktop browser), but domains ending in .store (among others) aren't. I was hoping to bring this issue to their attention. Any guidance you can provide to get in touch with the right folks would be much appreciated. Thanks, Shweta <image001.png><https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3a%2f%2fradix.websit...> Shweta Asher Sr. Manager, Security, Compliance & Legal T: +91 (22) 3079 7500 Extn: 8522 Skype: shwetasahjwani On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 10:09 PM, M3 Sweatt <msweatt@microsoft.com<mailto:msweatt@microsoft.com>> wrote: For which products or apps do you need support new gTLDs on? Is there general guidance needed or specific issues? We have contacts at Twitter and other companies, and can help you connect with the appropriate contacts. It may be good to aggregate/ consolidate technical asks such that companies could provide broad guidance. From: Shweta Asher<mailto:shweta@radix.email> Sent: Monday, June 20, 2016 3:31 AM To: UA-discuss@icann.org<mailto:UA-discuss@icann.org> Subject: Re: [UA-discuss] Contacts at... Hi Don, all, If anyone has a contact at Twitter, please do share the same. We need to speak with them about linkification of certain new TLDs in tweets. Thanks, Shweta <image001.png><https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3a%2f%2fradix.websit...> Shweta Asher Sr. Manager, Security, Compliance & Legal T: +91 (22) 3079 7500 Extn: 8522 Skype: shwetasahjwani On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 12:40 AM, Brent London <brentlondon@google.com<mailto:brentlondon@google.com>> wrote: Thanks Kurt, Don. My point of contact at Yahoo replied yesterday evening, so I will continue the thread there. If that hits a wall, I'll follow up here! With regards, Brent On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 11:16 AM, <kurt@kjpritz.com<mailto:kurt@kjpritz.com>> wrote: Hi Don: I wrote to my contact at Yahoo, who is in the legal department. After trading emails, she asked that we provide a "short summary of the [email] issue that I can forward" to the right parities at Yahoo. (This leads me to think she has already made contacts within Yahoo.) We could probably use a chapter of what Mark or Brent has already written. Can you select a paragraph or two that I can forward? I hope this is helpful, Kurt --------- Original Message --------- Subject: [UA-discuss] Contacts at... From: "Don Hollander" <don.hollander@icann.org<mailto:don.hollander@icann.org>> Date: 10/1/15 11:44 pm To: "UA-discuss@icann.org<mailto:UA-discuss@icann.org>" <UA-discuss@icann.org<mailto:UA-discuss@icann.org>> G’day all… I’m hoping that you can help. I'm currently looking for the following contacts: - Yahoo - Someone who is familiar with their e-mail platform and plans for EAI - Adobe - Someone within their Flash Development Team - Mozilla - Someone within their Firefox team who’s working on Flash implementations - Twitter - Someone who is familiar with how they handle Linkifications If you are such a person, or you personally know such a person - or even know someone who will know someone (3 degrees of separation) - can you please let me kn! ow off the list? Thanks. Don don.hollander@icann.org<mailto:don.hollander@icann.org>

Hi Dennis, It doesn't linkify with any prefixs either. Tried www, http://, https://, and nic.store. Regarding other gTLDs, I randomly tried a few and identified these ones that don't linkify either: .gmbh, .stream, .insurance, .salon, .vip, .beauty, .cruise, .free, .deal, .tube, etc. Obviously there must be more. Thanks, Shweta *[image: Description: Description: Radix.gif]* <http://radix.website> *Shweta Asher* Sr. Manager, Security, Compliance & Legal T: +91 (22) 3079 7500 Extn: 8522 Skype: shwetasahjwani On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 10:57 PM, Tan Tanaka, Dennis < dtantanaka@verisign.com> wrote:

I meant to write h t t p and h t t p s. Looks like my email client changed the strings.

Sent from my iPhone

On Jun 21, 2016, at 1:11 PM, Tan Tanaka, Dennis <dtantanaka@verisign.com> wrote:

Just so I understand.

.store domain names are not linkified when the string is written as "domain.store"? What about if you add the prefix "awb://" or "awbs://"?

Dennis

Sent from my iPhone

On Jun 21, 2016, at 1:03 PM, M3 Sweatt via UA-discuss < ua-discuss@icann.org> wrote:

Thanks, this is helpful. Are there other gTLDs that run into issues?

*From: *Shweta Asher <shweta@radix.email> *Sent: *Tuesday, June 21, 2016 9:58 AM *To: *M3 Sweatt <msweatt@microsoft.com> *Cc: *UA-discuss@icann.org *Subject: *Re: [UA-discuss] Contacts at...

Hi,

My issue is specific to one of our new gTLDs - .store. Domains ending in many new TLDs are automatically linkified when you tweet (I've tried this using twitter on my desktop browser), but domains ending in .store (among others) aren't. I was hoping to bring this issue to their attention.

Any guidance you can provide to get in touch with the right folks would be much appreciated.

Thanks, Shweta

*<image001.png>* <https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3a%2f%2fradix.websit...>

*Shweta Asher*

Sr. Manager, Security, Compliance & Legal

T: +91 (22) 3079 7500 Extn: 8522

Skype: shwetasahjwani

On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 10:09 PM, M3 Sweatt <msweatt@microsoft.com> wrote:

...

For which products or apps do you need support new gTLDs on? Is there general guidance needed or specific issues?

We have contacts at Twitter and other companies, and can help you connect with the appropriate contacts. It may be good to aggregate/ consolidate technical asks such that companies could provide broad guidance.

*From: *Shweta Asher <shweta@radix.email> *Sent: *Monday, June 20, 2016 3:31 AM *To: *UA-discuss@icann.org *Subject: *Re: [UA-discuss] Contacts at...

Hi Don, all,

If anyone has a contact at Twitter, please do share the same. We need to speak with them about linkification of certain new TLDs in tweets.

Thanks, Shweta

*<image001.png>* <https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3a%2f%2fradix.websit...>

*Shweta Asher*

Sr. Manager, Security, Compliance & Legal

T: +91 (22) 3079 7500 Extn: 8522

Skype: shwetasahjwani

On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 12:40 AM, Brent London <brentlondon@google.com> wrote:

...

Thanks Kurt, Don.

My point of contact at Yahoo replied yesterday evening, so I will continue the thread there. If that hits a wall, I'll follow up here!

With regards, Brent

On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 11:16 AM, <kurt@kjpritz.com> wrote:

...

Hi Don:

I wrote to my contact at Yahoo, who is in the legal department.

After trading emails, she asked that we provide a "short summary of the [email] issue that I can forward" to the right parities at Yahoo. (This leads me to think she has already made contacts within Yahoo.)

We could probably use a chapter of what Mark or Brent has already written. Can you select a paragraph or two that I can forward?

I hope this is helpful,

Kurt

--------- Original Message --------- Subject: [UA-discuss] Contacts at... From: "Don Hollander" <don.hollander@icann.org> Date: 10/1/15 11:44 pm To: "UA-discuss@icann.org" <UA-discuss@icann.org>

G’day all…

I’m hoping that you can help.

I'm currently looking for the following contacts:

- Yahoo - Someone who is familiar with their e-mail platform and plans for EAI - Adobe - Someone within their Flash Development Team - Mozilla - Someone within their Firefox team who’s working on Flash implementations - Twitter - Someone who is familiar with how they handle Linkifications

If you are such a person, or you personally know such a person - or even know someone who will know someone (3 degrees of separation) - can you please let me kn! ow off the list?

Thanks.

Don

don.hollander@icann.org

This is an interesting example: I think I replicated what Asher is reporting. See picture 1 (orange-ish background). Note how the “.store” examples are in plain black whereas the “.コム” examples are highlighted in orange which indicates that twitter is recognizing them as a potential link. When the tweet is published, the “.store” domain names remain as plain text (no linkification) but the three .コム strings were converted to links (in addition to the a-label to u-label transformation, which is nice) It seems that twitter is looking for more than a prefix (http or https) to signal that the following string is a domain name, but also looking for the TLD in its suffix list or in a third party one. According to UASG linkification guidelines they should only do the former. (Mark – keep me honest here) -Dennis [cid:image001.png@01D1CBC8.484B09B0] [cid:image002.png@01D1CBC8.484B09B0] From: M3 Sweatt <msweatt@microsoft.com> Date: Tuesday, June 21, 2016 at 2:03 PM To: Shweta Asher <shweta@radix.email>, "Tan Tanaka, Dennis" <dtantanaka@verisign.com> Cc: "UA-discuss@icann.org" <UA-discuss@icann.org> Subject: RE: [UA-discuss] Contacts at... Thanks. In this case, the challenge is that URLs using the gTLDs below posted on the service are not shortened to a t.co link (Twitter’s link-shortening service). Is that correct? From: Shweta Asher [mailto:shweta@radix.email] Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2016 10:52 AM To: Tan Tanaka, Dennis <dtantanaka@verisign.com> Cc: M3 Sweatt <msweatt@microsoft.com>; UA-discuss@icann.org Subject: Re: [UA-discuss] Contacts at... Hi Dennis, It doesn't linkify with any prefixs either. Tried www, http://, https://, and nic.store. Regarding other gTLDs, I randomly tried a few and identified these ones that don't linkify either: .gmbh, .stream, .insurance, .salon, .vip, .beauty, .cruise, .free, .deal, .tube, etc. Obviously there must be more. Thanks, Shweta [escription: Description: Radix.gif]<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3a%2f%2fradix.websit...> Shweta Asher Sr. Manager, Security, Compliance & Legal T: +91 (22) 3079 7500 Extn: 8522 Skype: shwetasahjwani On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 10:57 PM, Tan Tanaka, Dennis <dtantanaka@verisign.com<mailto:dtantanaka@verisign.com>> wrote: I meant to write h t t p and h t t p s. Looks like my email client changed the strings. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 21, 2016, at 1:11 PM, Tan Tanaka, Dennis <dtantanaka@verisign.com<mailto:dtantanaka@verisign.com>> wrote: Just so I understand. .store domain names are not linkified when the string is written as "domain.store"? What about if you add the prefix "awb://" or "awbs://"? Dennis Sent from my iPhone On Jun 21, 2016, at 1:03 PM, M3 Sweatt via UA-discuss <ua-discuss@icann.org<mailto:ua-discuss@icann.org>> wrote: Thanks, this is helpful. Are there other gTLDs that run into issues? From: Shweta Asher<mailto:shweta@radix.email> Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2016 9:58 AM To: M3 Sweatt<mailto:msweatt@microsoft.com> Cc: UA-discuss@icann.org<mailto:UA-discuss@icann.org> Subject: Re: [UA-discuss] Contacts at... Hi, My issue is specific to one of our new gTLDs - .store. Domains ending in many new TLDs are automatically linkified when you tweet (I've tried this using twitter on my desktop browser), but domains ending in .store (among others) aren't. I was hoping to bring this issue to their attention. Any guidance you can provide to get in touch with the right folks would be much appreciated. Thanks, Shweta <image001.png><https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3a%2f%2fradix.websit...> Shweta Asher Sr. Manager, Security, Compliance & Legal T: +91 (22) 3079 7500 Extn: 8522 Skype: shwetasahjwani On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 10:09 PM, M3 Sweatt <msweatt@microsoft.com<mailto:msweatt@microsoft.com>> wrote: For which products or apps do you need support new gTLDs on? Is there general guidance needed or specific issues? We have contacts at Twitter and other companies, and can help you connect with the appropriate contacts. It may be good to aggregate/ consolidate technical asks such that companies could provide broad guidance. From: Shweta Asher<mailto:shweta@radix.email> Sent: Monday, June 20, 2016 3:31 AM To: UA-discuss@icann.org<mailto:UA-discuss@icann.org> Subject: Re: [UA-discuss] Contacts at... Hi Don, all, If anyone has a contact at Twitter, please do share the same. We need to speak with them about linkification of certain new TLDs in tweets. Thanks, Shweta <image001.png><https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3a%2f%2fradix.websit...> Shweta Asher Sr. Manager, Security, Compliance & Legal T: +91 (22) 3079 7500 Extn: 8522 Skype: shwetasahjwani On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 12:40 AM, Brent London <brentlondon@google.com<mailto:brentlondon@google.com>> wrote: Thanks Kurt, Don. My point of contact at Yahoo replied yesterday evening, so I will continue the thread there. If that hits a wall, I'll follow up here! With regards, Brent On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 11:16 AM, <kurt@kjpritz.com<mailto:kurt@kjpritz.com>> wrote: Hi Don: I wrote to my contact at Yahoo, who is in the legal department. After trading emails, she asked that we provide a "short summary of the [email] issue that I can forward" to the right parities at Yahoo. (This leads me to think she has already made contacts within Yahoo.) We could probably use a chapter of what Mark or Brent has already written. Can you select a paragraph or two that I can forward? I hope this is helpful, Kurt --------- Original Message --------- Subject: [UA-discuss] Contacts at... From: "Don Hollander" <don.hollander@icann.org<mailto:don.hollander@icann.org>> Date: 10/1/15 11:44 pm To: "UA-discuss@icann.org<mailto:UA-discuss@icann.org>" <UA-discuss@icann.org<mailto:UA-discuss@icann.org>> G’day all… I’m hoping that you can help. I'm currently looking for the following contacts: - Yahoo - Someone who is familiar with their e-mail platform and plans for EAI - Adobe - Someone within their Flash Development Team - Mozilla - Someone within their Firefox team who’s working on Flash implementations - Twitter - Someone who is familiar with how they handle Linkifications If you are such a person, or you personally know such a person - or even know someone who will know someone (3 degrees of separation) - can you please let me kn! ow off the list? Thanks. Don don.hollander@icann.org<mailto:don.hollander@icann.org>

As a follow up, I’ve connected MarkSv with some of our contacts at Twitter to raise the issue. From: Dusan Stojicevic [mailto:dusan@dukes.in.rs] Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2016 12:57 PM To: 'Tan Tanaka, Dennis' <dtantanaka@verisign.com>; M3 Sweatt <msweatt@microsoft.com>; 'Shweta Asher' <shweta@radix.email> Cc: UA-discuss@icann.org Subject: RE: [UA-discuss] Contacts at... Dennis: Agree with You with one small add-on to the problem (blue color are links): [cid:image005.png@01D1CBFD.F51EDCE0] [cid:image006.png@01D1CBE0.20EDE730] As far as I can see, on Twitter in edit mode, if you are trying without any recognizable part (www, http(s), xn--,...) there is no linkifaction even for old ASCII domain names. Similar algorythm is used on Facebook. Cheers, Dusan From: ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org<mailto:ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org> [mailto:ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org] On Behalf Of Tan Tanaka, Dennis Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2016 8:22 PM To: M3 Sweatt <msweatt@microsoft.com<mailto:msweatt@microsoft.com>>; Shweta Asher <shweta@radix.email<mailto:shweta@radix.email>> Cc: UA-discuss@icann.org<mailto:UA-discuss@icann.org> Subject: Re: [UA-discuss] Contacts at... This is an interesting example: I think I replicated what Asher is reporting. See picture 1 (orange-ish background). Note how the “.store” examples are in plain black whereas the “.コム” examples are highlighted in orange which indicates that twitter is recognizing them as a potential link. When the tweet is published, the “.store” domain names remain as plain text (no linkification) but the three .コム strings were converted to links (in addition to the a-label to u-label transformation, which is nice) It seems that twitter is looking for more than a prefix (http or https) to signal that the following string is a domain name, but also looking for the TLD in its suffix list or in a third party one. According to UASG linkification guidelines they should only do the former. (Mark – keep me honest here) -Dennis [cid:image001.png@01D1CBFC.043DA140] [cid:image002.png@01D1CBFC.043DA140] From: M3 Sweatt <msweatt@microsoft.com<mailto:msweatt@microsoft.com>> Date: Tuesday, June 21, 2016 at 2:03 PM To: Shweta Asher <shweta@radix.email<mailto:shweta@radix.email>>, "Tan Tanaka, Dennis" <dtantanaka@verisign.com<mailto:dtantanaka@verisign.com>> Cc: "UA-discuss@icann.org<mailto:UA-discuss@icann.org>" <UA-discuss@icann.org<mailto:UA-discuss@icann.org>> Subject: RE: [UA-discuss] Contacts at... Thanks. In this case, the challenge is that URLs using the gTLDs below posted on the service are not shortened to a t.co link (Twitter’s link-shortening service). Is that correct? From: Shweta Asher [mailto:shweta@radix.email] Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2016 10:52 AM To: Tan Tanaka, Dennis <dtantanaka@verisign.com<mailto:dtantanaka@verisign.com>> Cc: M3 Sweatt <msweatt@microsoft.com<mailto:msweatt@microsoft.com>>; UA-discuss@icann.org<mailto:UA-discuss@icann.org> Subject: Re: [UA-discuss] Contacts at... Hi Dennis, It doesn't linkify with any prefixs either. Tried www, http://, https://, and nic.store. Regarding other gTLDs, I randomly tried a few and identified these ones that don't linkify either: .gmbh, .stream, .insurance, .salon, .vip, .beauty, .cruise, .free, .deal, .tube, etc. Obviously there must be more. Thanks, Shweta [escription: Description: Radix.gif]<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3a%2f%2fradix.websit...> Shweta Asher Sr. Manager, Security, Compliance & Legal T: +91 (22) 3079 7500 Extn: 8522 Skype: shwetasahjwani On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 10:57 PM, Tan Tanaka, Dennis <dtantanaka@verisign.com<mailto:dtantanaka@verisign.com>> wrote: I meant to write h t t p and h t t p s. Looks like my email client changed the strings. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 21, 2016, at 1:11 PM, Tan Tanaka, Dennis <dtantanaka@verisign.com<mailto:dtantanaka@verisign.com>> wrote: Just so I understand. .store domain names are not linkified when the string is written as "domain.store"? What about if you add the prefix "awb://" or "awbs://"? Dennis Sent from my iPhone On Jun 21, 2016, at 1:03 PM, M3 Sweatt via UA-discuss <ua-discuss@icann.org<mailto:ua-discuss@icann.org>> wrote: Thanks, this is helpful. Are there other gTLDs that run into issues? From: Shweta Asher<mailto:shweta@radix.email> Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2016 9:58 AM To: M3 Sweatt<mailto:msweatt@microsoft.com> Cc: UA-discuss@icann.org<mailto:UA-discuss@icann.org> Subject: Re: [UA-discuss] Contacts at... Hi, My issue is specific to one of our new gTLDs - .store. Domains ending in many new TLDs are automatically linkified when you tweet (I've tried this using twitter on my desktop browser), but domains ending in .store (among others) aren't. I was hoping to bring this issue to their attention. Any guidance you can provide to get in touch with the right folks would be much appreciated. Thanks, Shweta <image001.png><https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3a%2f%2fradix.websit...> Shweta Asher Sr. Manager, Security, Compliance & Legal T: +91 (22) 3079 7500 Extn: 8522 Skype: shwetasahjwani On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 10:09 PM, M3 Sweatt <msweatt@microsoft.com<mailto:msweatt@microsoft.com>> wrote: For which products or apps do you need support new gTLDs on? Is there general guidance needed or specific issues? We have contacts at Twitter and other companies, and can help you connect with the appropriate contacts. It may be good to aggregate/ consolidate technical asks such that companies could provide broad guidance. From: Shweta Asher<mailto:shweta@radix.email> Sent: Monday, June 20, 2016 3:31 AM To: UA-discuss@icann.org<mailto:UA-discuss@icann.org> Subject: Re: [UA-discuss] Contacts at... Hi Don, all, If anyone has a contact at Twitter, please do share the same. We need to speak with them about linkification of certain new TLDs in tweets. Thanks, Shweta <image001.png><https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3a%2f%2fradix.websit...> Shweta Asher Sr. Manager, Security, Compliance & Legal T: +91 (22) 3079 7500 Extn: 8522 Skype: shwetasahjwani On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 12:40 AM, Brent London <brentlondon@google.com<mailto:brentlondon@google.com>> wrote: Thanks Kurt, Don. My point of contact at Yahoo replied yesterday evening, so I will continue the thread there. If that hits a wall, I'll follow up here! With regards, Brent On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 11:16 AM, <kurt@kjpritz.com<mailto:kurt@kjpritz.com>> wrote: Hi Don: I wrote to my contact at Yahoo, who is in the legal department. After trading emails, she asked that we provide a "short summary of the [email] issue that I can forward" to the right parities at Yahoo. (This leads me to think she has already made contacts within Yahoo.) We could probably use a chapter of what Mark or Brent has already written. Can you select a paragraph or two that I can forward? I hope this is helpful, Kurt --------- Original Message --------- Subject: [UA-discuss] Contacts at... From: "Don Hollander" <don.hollander@icann.org<mailto:don.hollander@icann.org>> Date: 10/1/15 11:44 pm To: "UA-discuss@icann.org<mailto:UA-discuss@icann.org>" <UA-discuss@icann.org<mailto:UA-discuss@icann.org>> G’day all… I’m hoping that you can help. I'm currently looking for the following contacts: - Yahoo - Someone who is familiar with their e-mail platform and plans for EAI - Adobe - Someone within their Flash Development Team - Mozilla - Someone within their Firefox team who’s working on Flash implementations - Twitter - Someone who is familiar with how they handle Linkifications If you are such a person, or you personally know such a person - or even know someone who will know someone (3 degrees of separation) - can you please let me kn! ow off the list? Thanks. Don don.hollander@icann.org<mailto:don.hollander@icann.org>

We’ll keep you informed From: Shweta Asher [mailto:shweta@radix.email] Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2016 3:31 AM To: M3 Sweatt <msweatt@microsoft.com> Cc: Dusan Stojicevic <dusan@dukes.in.rs>; Tan Tanaka, Dennis <dtantanaka@verisign.com>; Mark Svancarek <marksv@microsoft.com>; UA-discuss@icann.org Subject: Re: [UA-discuss] Contacts at... Thank you for the help, M3 and Mark! Hoping that this gets fixed soon. Cheers, Shweta [Description: Description: Radix.gif]<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3a%2f%2fradix.websit...> Shweta Asher Sr. Manager, Security, Compliance & Legal T: +91 (22) 3079 7500 Extn: 8522 Skype: shwetasahjwani On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 5:42 AM, M3 Sweatt <msweatt@microsoft.com<mailto:msweatt@microsoft.com>> wrote: As a follow up, I’ve connected MarkSv with some of our contacts at Twitter to raise the issue. From: Dusan Stojicevic [mailto:dusan@dukes.in.rs<mailto:dusan@dukes.in.rs>] Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2016 12:57 PM To: 'Tan Tanaka, Dennis' <dtantanaka@verisign.com<mailto:dtantanaka@verisign.com>>; M3 Sweatt <msweatt@microsoft.com<mailto:msweatt@microsoft.com>>; 'Shweta Asher' <shweta@radix.email<mailto:shweta@radix.email>> Cc: UA-discuss@icann.org<mailto:UA-discuss@icann.org> Subject: RE: [UA-discuss] Contacts at... Dennis: Agree with You with one small add-on to the problem (blue color are links): [cid:image005.png@01D1CBFD.F51EDCE0] [cid:image003.png@01D1CD35.985F2CB0] As far as I can see, on Twitter in edit mode, if you are trying without any recognizable part (www, http(s), xn--,...) there is no linkifaction even for old ASCII domain names. Similar algorythm is used on Facebook. Cheers, Dusan From: ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org<mailto:ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org> [mailto:ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org] On Behalf Of Tan Tanaka, Dennis Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2016 8:22 PM To: M3 Sweatt <msweatt@microsoft.com<mailto:msweatt@microsoft.com>>; Shweta Asher <shweta@radix.email<mailto:shweta@radix.email>> Cc: UA-discuss@icann.org<mailto:UA-discuss@icann.org> Subject: Re: [UA-discuss] Contacts at... This is an interesting example: I think I replicated what Asher is reporting. See picture 1 (orange-ish background). Note how the “.store” examples are in plain black whereas the “.コム” examples are highlighted in orange which indicates that twitter is recognizing them as a potential link. When the tweet is published, the “.store” domain names remain as plain text (no linkification) but the three .コム strings were converted to links (in addition to the a-label to u-label transformation, which is nice) It seems that twitter is looking for more than a prefix (http or https) to signal that the following string is a domain name, but also looking for the TLD in its suffix list or in a third party one. According to UASG linkification guidelines they should only do the former. (Mark – keep me honest here) -Dennis [cid:image001.png@01D1CBFC.043DA140] [cid:image002.png@01D1CBFC.043DA140] From: M3 Sweatt <msweatt@microsoft.com<mailto:msweatt@microsoft.com>> Date: Tuesday, June 21, 2016 at 2:03 PM To: Shweta Asher <shweta@radix.email<mailto:shweta@radix.email>>, "Tan Tanaka, Dennis" <dtantanaka@verisign.com<mailto:dtantanaka@verisign.com>> Cc: "UA-discuss@icann.org<mailto:UA-discuss@icann.org>" <UA-discuss@icann.org<mailto:UA-discuss@icann.org>> Subject: RE: [UA-discuss] Contacts at... Thanks. In this case, the challenge is that URLs using the gTLDs below posted on the service are not shortened to a t.co<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3a%2f%2ft.co&data=01...> link (Twitter’s link-shortening service). Is that correct? From: Shweta Asher [mailto:shweta@radix.email] Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2016 10:52 AM To: Tan Tanaka, Dennis <dtantanaka@verisign.com<mailto:dtantanaka@verisign.com>> Cc: M3 Sweatt <msweatt@microsoft.com<mailto:msweatt@microsoft.com>>; UA-discuss@icann.org<mailto:UA-discuss@icann.org> Subject: Re: [UA-discuss] Contacts at... Hi Dennis, It doesn't linkify with any prefixs either. Tried www, http://, https://, and nic.store. Regarding other gTLDs, I randomly tried a few and identified these ones that don't linkify either: .gmbh, .stream, .insurance, .salon, .vip, .beauty, .cruise, .free, .deal, .tube, etc. Obviously there must be more. Thanks, Shweta [escription: Description: Radix.gif]<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3a%2f%2fradix.websit...> Shweta Asher Sr. Manager, Security, Compliance & Legal T: +91 (22) 3079 7500 Extn: 8522 Skype: shwetasahjwani On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 10:57 PM, Tan Tanaka, Dennis <dtantanaka@verisign.com<mailto:dtantanaka@verisign.com>> wrote: I meant to write h t t p and h t t p s. Looks like my email client changed the strings. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 21, 2016, at 1:11 PM, Tan Tanaka, Dennis <dtantanaka@verisign.com<mailto:dtantanaka@verisign.com>> wrote: Just so I understand. .store domain names are not linkified when the string is written as "domain.store"? What about if you add the prefix "awb://" or "awbs://"? Dennis Sent from my iPhone On Jun 21, 2016, at 1:03 PM, M3 Sweatt via UA-discuss <ua-discuss@icann.org<mailto:ua-discuss@icann.org>> wrote: Thanks, this is helpful. Are there other gTLDs that run into issues? From: Shweta Asher<mailto:shweta@radix.email> Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2016 9:58 AM To: M3 Sweatt<mailto:msweatt@microsoft.com> Cc: UA-discuss@icann.org<mailto:UA-discuss@icann.org> Subject: Re: [UA-discuss] Contacts at... Hi, My issue is specific to one of our new gTLDs - .store. Domains ending in many new TLDs are automatically linkified when you tweet (I've tried this using twitter on my desktop browser), but domains ending in .store (among others) aren't. I was hoping to bring this issue to their attention. Any guidance you can provide to get in touch with the right folks would be much appreciated. Thanks, Shweta <image001.png><https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3a%2f%2fradix.websit...> Shweta Asher Sr. Manager, Security, Compliance & Legal T: +91 (22) 3079 7500 Extn: 8522 Skype: shwetasahjwani On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 10:09 PM, M3 Sweatt <msweatt@microsoft.com<mailto:msweatt@microsoft.com>> wrote: For which products or apps do you need support new gTLDs on? Is there general guidance needed or specific issues? We have contacts at Twitter and other companies, and can help you connect with the appropriate contacts. It may be good to aggregate/ consolidate technical asks such that companies could provide broad guidance. From: Shweta Asher<mailto:shweta@radix.email> Sent: Monday, June 20, 2016 3:31 AM To: UA-discuss@icann.org<mailto:UA-discuss@icann.org> Subject: Re: [UA-discuss] Contacts at... Hi Don, all, If anyone has a contact at Twitter, please do share the same. We need to speak with them about linkification of certain new TLDs in tweets. Thanks, Shweta <image001.png><https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3a%2f%2fradix.websit...> Shweta Asher Sr. Manager, Security, Compliance & Legal T: +91 (22) 3079 7500 Extn: 8522 Skype: shwetasahjwani On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 12:40 AM, Brent London <brentlondon@google.com<mailto:brentlondon@google.com>> wrote: Thanks Kurt, Don. My point of contact at Yahoo replied yesterday evening, so I will continue the thread there. If that hits a wall, I'll follow up here! With regards, Brent On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 11:16 AM, <kurt@kjpritz.com<mailto:kurt@kjpritz.com>> wrote: Hi Don: I wrote to my contact at Yahoo, who is in the legal department. After trading emails, she asked that we provide a "short summary of the [email] issue that I can forward" to the right parities at Yahoo. (This leads me to think she has already made contacts within Yahoo.) We could probably use a chapter of what Mark or Brent has already written. Can you select a paragraph or two that I can forward? I hope this is helpful, Kurt --------- Original Message --------- Subject: [UA-discuss] Contacts at... From: "Don Hollander" <don.hollander@icann.org<mailto:don.hollander@icann.org>> Date: 10/1/15 11:44 pm To: "UA-discuss@icann.org<mailto:UA-discuss@icann.org>" <UA-discuss@icann.org<mailto:UA-discuss@icann.org>> G’day all… I’m hoping that you can help. I'm currently looking for the following contacts: - Yahoo - Someone who is familiar with their e-mail platform and plans for EAI - Adobe - Someone within their Flash Development Team - Mozilla - Someone within their Firefox team who’s working on Flash implementations - Twitter - Someone who is familiar with how they handle Linkifications If you are such a person, or you personally know such a person - or even know someone who will know someone (3 degrees of separation) - can you please let me kn! ow off the list? Thanks. Don don.hollander@icann.org<mailto:don.hollander@icann.org>

Hi Schweta (and all) It is a tactical matter within Twitter on how they handle URLs. I typically had been tweeting Steve Coates @scoates who is Twitter's TM lawyer when seeing these and he has a hallway chat with the folks internally and it resolves, but he's not been as responsive as of late, and it is an informal process, so expectations are not to be placed on him. -Jothan Jothan Frakes +1.206-355-0230 tel +1.206-201-6881 fax On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 11:03 AM, M3 Sweatt via UA-discuss < ua-discuss@icann.org> wrote:

Thanks. In this case, the challenge is that URLs using the gTLDs below posted on the service are not shortened to a t.co link (Twitter’s link-shortening service).

Is that correct?

*From:* Shweta Asher [mailto:shweta@radix.email] *Sent:* Tuesday, June 21, 2016 10:52 AM *To:* Tan Tanaka, Dennis <dtantanaka@verisign.com> *Cc:* M3 Sweatt <msweatt@microsoft.com>; UA-discuss@icann.org *Subject:* Re: [UA-discuss] Contacts at...

Hi Dennis,

It doesn't linkify with any prefixs either. Tried www, http://, https://, and nic.store.

Regarding other gTLDs, I randomly tried a few and identified these ones that don't linkify either: .gmbh, .stream, .insurance, .salon, .vip, .beauty, .cruise, .free, .deal, .tube, etc. Obviously there must be more.

Thanks,

Shweta

*[image: Description: Description: Radix.gif]* <https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3a%2f%2fradix.websit...>

*Shweta Asher*

Sr. Manager, Security, Compliance & Legal

T: +91 (22) 3079 7500 Extn: 8522

Skype: shwetasahjwani

On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 10:57 PM, Tan Tanaka, Dennis < dtantanaka@verisign.com> wrote:

I meant to write h t t p and h t t p s. Looks like my email client changed the strings.

Sent from my iPhone

On Jun 21, 2016, at 1:11 PM, Tan Tanaka, Dennis <dtantanaka@verisign.com> wrote:

Just so I understand.

.store domain names are not linkified when the string is written as "domain.store"? What about if you add the prefix "awb://" or "awbs://"?

Dennis

Sent from my iPhone

On Jun 21, 2016, at 1:03 PM, M3 Sweatt via UA-discuss < ua-discuss@icann.org> wrote:

Thanks, this is helpful. Are there other gTLDs that run into issues?

*From: *Shweta Asher <shweta@radix.email> *Sent: *Tuesday, June 21, 2016 9:58 AM *To: *M3 Sweatt <msweatt@microsoft.com> *Cc: *UA-discuss@icann.org *Subject: *Re: [UA-discuss] Contacts at...

Hi,

My issue is specific to one of our new gTLDs - .store. Domains ending in many new TLDs are automatically linkified when you tweet (I've tried this using twitter on my desktop browser), but domains ending in .store (among others) aren't. I was hoping to bring this issue to their attention.

Any guidance you can provide to get in touch with the right folks would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Shweta

*<image001.png>* <https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3a%2f%2fradix.websit...>

*Shweta Asher*

Sr. Manager, Security, Compliance & Legal

T: +91 (22) 3079 7500 Extn: 8522

Skype: shwetasahjwani

On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 10:09 PM, M3 Sweatt <msweatt@microsoft.com> wrote:

For which products or apps do you need support new gTLDs on? Is there general guidance needed or specific issues?

We have contacts at Twitter and other companies, and can help you connect with the appropriate contacts. It may be good to aggregate/ consolidate technical asks such that companies could provide broad guidance.

*From: *Shweta Asher <shweta@radix.email> *Sent: *Monday, June 20, 2016 3:31 AM *To: *UA-discuss@icann.org *Subject: *Re: [UA-discuss] Contacts at...

Hi Don, all,

If anyone has a contact at Twitter, please do share the same. We need to speak with them about linkification of certain new TLDs in tweets.

Thanks,

Shweta

*<image001.png>* <https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3a%2f%2fradix.websit...>

*Shweta Asher*

Sr. Manager, Security, Compliance & Legal

T: +91 (22) 3079 7500 Extn: 8522

Skype: shwetasahjwani

On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 12:40 AM, Brent London <brentlondon@google.com> wrote:

Thanks Kurt, Don.

My point of contact at Yahoo replied yesterday evening, so I will continue the thread there. If that hits a wall, I'll follow up here!

With regards,

Brent

On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 11:16 AM, <kurt@kjpritz.com> wrote:

Hi Don:

I wrote to my contact at Yahoo, who is in the legal department.

After trading emails, she asked that we provide a "short summary of the [email] issue that I can forward" to the right parities at Yahoo. (This leads me to think she has already made contacts within Yahoo.)

We could probably use a chapter of what Mark or Brent has already written. Can you select a paragraph or two that I can forward?

I hope this is helpful,

Kurt

--------- Original Message ---------

Subject: [UA-discuss] Contacts at... From: "Don Hollander" <don.hollander@icann.org> Date: 10/1/15 11:44 pm To: "UA-discuss@icann.org" <UA-discuss@icann.org>

G’day all…

I’m hoping that you can help.

I'm currently looking for the following contacts:

- Yahoo - Someone who is familiar with their e-mail platform and plans for EAI - Adobe - Someone within their Flash Development Team - Mozilla - Someone within their Firefox team who’s working on Flash implementations - Twitter - Someone who is familiar with how they handle Linkifications

If you are such a person, or you personally know such a person - or even know someone who will know someone (3 degrees of separation) - can you please let me kn! ow off the list?

Thanks.

Don

don.hollander@icann.org