[UA-discuss] Review of UASG 002 - Outreach to Webmasters

Mon Jun 6 22:34:28 UTC 2016

Hi Michele

IMHO, I believe it's important that UASG reaches out officially even if
other folks send less formal emails.
Also, if a bug repository exists for the site/software a bug should be
entered by UASG staff/volunteers.

--
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 Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 5:39 PM, Michele Neylon - Blacknight <
michele at blacknight.com> wrote:

> Dirk
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> But is it being sent on behalf of the UASG or by anyone trying to do
> outreach who stumbles across a non-functional signup process?
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> I thought it was meant to be for general outreach and not a formal note
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> Regards
>
>
> Michele
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> --
>
> Mr Michele Neylon
>
> Blacknight Solutions
>
> Hosting, Colocation & Domains
>
> http://www.blacknight.host/
>
> http://blog.blacknight.com/
>
> http://ceo.hosting/
>
> Intl. +353 (0) 59  9183072
>
> Direct Dial: +353 (0)59 9183090
>
> -------------------------------
>
> Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd, Unit 12A,Barrowside Business Park,Sleaty
>
> Road,Graiguecullen,Carlow,R93 X265,
>
> Ireland  Company No.: 370845
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> *From: *Dirk Bhagat <dirk at get.club>
> *Date: *Monday 6 June 2016 at 17:04
> *To: *Michele Neylon <michele at blacknight.com>
> *Cc: *Don Hollander <don.hollander at icann.org>, "UA-discuss at icann.org" <
> UA-discuss at icann.org>
> *Subject: *Re: [UA-discuss] Review of UASG 002 - Outreach to Webmasters
>
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> Here's my take on it Michele...lots to improve i'm sure...
>
> If I was sending this *personally *i'd be more informal, but as a note
> representing the UASG, this is what I was thinking would have the most
> impact.  I'll leave it to you guys to decide. That's $0.04 now.
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> ======
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> Dear Webmaster
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>
> We are writing with respect to your site:______ on behalf of the Universal
> Acceptance Steering Group, a subcommittee of ICANN tasked with coordinating
> a community effort to ensure that internet software accepts newly released
> Top Level Domains. ICANN has recently completed a roll out of over 1,000
> new Top Level Domains like .tech, .xyz, .guru,.club and others and there
> are currently 10 Million domains using these new extensions such as [ enter
> examples here:  abc.xyz, coffee.club, ...  ].
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> As part of our ongoing tests we were informed that asdd at asdf.tech is not
> accepted at your website:  www.____.  Do you have a timeline for resolving
> this issue and accepting these new names ? There are potentially thousands
> of users who cannot access your site.
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> For additional technical resources and general information on the
> Universal Acceptance Steering Group, ICANN and others, please visit us at:
> _________.
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> Sincerely
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> [ name ]
>
> UASG staff member
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> [ email ]
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> The Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG)
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> The UASG is a subcommittee of ICANN tasked with coordinating a  community
> effort to ensure that internet software accepts newly released Top Level
> Domains. The UASG is made up of individuals and companies active in
> Internet software and services. The UASG may be contacted at : .... , tel:
> ...
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>
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> Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
>
> Icann is the governing body that ... [ Fill this in  ]  ... runs the
> internet ;)
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> ======
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> --
> 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 Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Michele Neylon - Blacknight <
> michele at blacknight.com> wrote:
>
> Dirk
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> How would you word all that?
>
> As a website / service administrator they need to know the absolute
> basics, so linking to more information might make sense, but a longer email
> than the one proposed might not be more effective
>
>
>
> Just my two (Euro) cents
>
>
>
> Regards
>
>
> Michele
>
>
>
> --
>
> Mr Michele Neylon
>
> Blacknight Solutions
>
> Hosting, Colocation & Domains
>
> http://www.blacknight.host/
>
> http://blog.blacknight.com/
>
> http://ceo.hosting/
>
> Intl. +353 (0) 59  9183072
>
> Direct Dial: +353 (0)59 9183090
>
> -------------------------------
>
> Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd, Unit 12A,Barrowside Business Park,Sleaty
>
> Road,Graiguecullen,Carlow,R93 X265,
>
> Ireland  Company No.: 370845
>
>
>
> *From: *<ua-discuss-bounces at icann.org> on behalf of Dirk Bhagat
> <dirk at get.club>
> *Date: *Sunday 5 June 2016 at 22:27
> *To: *Don Hollander <don.hollander at icann.org>
> *Cc: *"UA-discuss at icann.org" <UA-discuss at icann.org>
> *Subject: *Re: [UA-discuss] Review of UASG 002 - Outreach to Webmasters
>
>
>
> Hi All
>
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> If this is part of a direct outreach effort, couple of points/experience
> on this:
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> 1. Suggest having a description of ICANN, its role and responsibilities
> and a sentence or two about the Universal Acceptance Working Group (from
> who I'm assuming this letter is addressed).
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> 2. Anytime I've corresponded with someone on this personally, i've
> included info in the email about the new TLDs.
>
> e.g. ".club has been delegated by ICANN in early 2014 and there now over
> 800,000 customers that use a .Club domain. Some of our customers include
> Coffee.club, Soap.club, Eat.club to name a few. Collectively, there are now
> more than X million customers worldwide that have registered a domain with
> one of the new extensions.".
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> 3. Ask for a timetable on when the issue will be resolved
>
> "As the UASG is tasked with creating ensuring that all technical systems
> accept new names going forward, we are asking all non-compliant systems to
> indicate when they will be able to bring their systems into compliance.
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> 4. A link to a technical page about how to get a system accept new domains
> in various programming languages would be good if one exists.
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> e.g. how to validate in JS,php etc..
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> Just my $0.02 on a sunny sunday afternoon in Toronto :)
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> --
> 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 Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 2:20 AM, Don Hollander <don.hollander at icann.org>
> wrote:
>
> It’s been nearly six months since we drafted our Outreach to Webmaster
> text in UASG002.
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> Since that time, the UASG has produced a number of other documents and the
> http://ua.thedna.org/ has stopped resolving.  The UASG also expects to
> launch our dedicated website shortly
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> *Here is the current version:*
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> *English*
>
> Dear Website Administrator,
>
> I tried to create an account using my email address: xxxxx at xxxxx.xxxxx.
> Your site does not recognize it and I’m reaching out to you to please look
> into and fix this issue. There are thousands of others that are using new
> web address extensions for email and are also affected.
>
>
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> I found more information on new domain names here: <http://ua.thedna.org/> and
> here:
> <https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/universal-acceptance-2012-02-25-en>
> https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/universal-acceptance-2012-02-25-en.
>
> ----
>
> I would suggest that we alter this to:
>
>
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> *English*
> Dear Website Administrator,
>
> I tried to create an account using my email address: xxxxx at xxxxx.xxxxx.
> Your site does not accept it and I’m reaching out to you to please look
> into and fix this issue.
>
> I found more information on new domain names and email addresses at
> www.uasg.tech.
>
> You might find the information there helpful as you work to fix this
> problem.
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>
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> Thank you.
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>
> ——
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> I have created an editable version at
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DeofaHmtntEgeU1wJPZceiRVUcbaSDMDPMxq18rAa6A/edit?usp=sharing
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> I would like to leave this open for edits and comments through the 10th of
> June.   Then, I would welcome very much your help once again to translate
> this final document into language that you know well.
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> Thanks.
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> Don
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