[UA-discuss] Ideas of Publicly Accessible Test Suite of domain names

Brent London brentlondon at google.com
Mon Oct 5 17:15:52 UTC 2015


Yes - I agree.

It's easy to add additional domains to the test suite. As long as the
registry operator allows a particular combination of scripts, it'll work
with the tool. If you have any recommendations, we can look into adding
them.

On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 10:06 AM, Jothan Frakes <jothan at jothan.com> wrote:

> Excellent ideas - If I could build upon them, some more robust variance in
> unicode.unicode with respect to working with varied scripts (especially
> RTL.LTR / LTR.RTL combinations - though fringe, might help counter
> potential homograph email forgery) as the inter-operability of these is
> going to be important.
>
>
> Jothan Frakes
> Tel: +1.206-355-0230
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 1:54 PM, Brent London <brentlondon at google.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Domain Test is a tool that we made to help with this. It's accessible at
>> http://domaintest.foo and on ~120 other TLDs (including some IDNs).
>>
>> It's similar to what you propose, except that it by design can only work
>> with valid domain names. (For obvious reasons, we can't have an invalid TLD
>> point to a hosted test suite.)
>>
>> Check out the documentation link from the page above to learn how it
>> works and what domains are compatible with it.
>>
>> Brent //mobile
>> On Oct 2, 2015 12:36 AM, "Don Hollander" <don.hollander at icann.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear all:
>>>
>>> One of the tasks that’s being consider is the create of a Test Suite of
>>> domain names and e-mail addresses that can be used to test an application
>>> for it’s UA readiness.
>>>
>>> This might include:
>>>
>>> 1.     Ascii.com <http://ascii.com>
>>>
>>> 2.     Invalid TLD
>>>
>>> 3.     Ascii.nTLD
>>>
>>> 4.     Ascii.punycode
>>>
>>> 5.     Ascii.unicode
>>>
>>> 6.     Unicode.unicode
>>>
>>> 7.     Long TLD
>>>
>>> 8.     Five Character TLD
>>>
>>> 9.     Nascent TLD
>>>
>>>
>>> Some people may be happy to register their own domain name for each of
>>> the categories - but not everyone might.  Particularly for the
>>> Unicode.unicode.
>>>
>>> I’m wondering if people have any ideas of how we might be able to create
>>> a public resource that people can use to test their systems if they don’t
>>> want to secure their own domain names?    One thought had been to set up a
>>> mailing list that is publicly visible and people can access that to see if
>>> their welcome message appears.
>>>
>>> I would very much welcome those of you with a Geeky bent to let me know
>>> (on or off list) of any ideas the you think might work.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Don
>>>
>>
>
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