[UA-discuss] [UA-Discuss] Acceptance Tests done for sites

Thu May 19 08:36:47 UTC 2016

Hi all,
this is great work by .club and Donuts. Is there a possibility to match the results and make them available in a Google Docs?
Thank you!
Lars

Von: ua-discuss-bounces at icann.org [mailto:ua-discuss-bounces at icann.org] Im Auftrag von Alina Syunkova
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 18. Mai 2016 19:32
An: Dirk Bhagat <dirk at get.club>
Cc: UA-discuss at icann.org
Betreff: Re: [UA-discuss] [UA-Discuss] Acceptance Tests done for sites

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 at get.club<mailto:dirk at get.club>> wrote:
Hi Andrew
Good to hear.
Thanks.

--
Dirk Bhagat

CoFounder, CTO
.CLUB DOMAINS LLC.
100 SE 3rd Ave, Suite 1310
Fort Lauderdale, Fl, 33394
o: 954.530.2580<tel:954.530.2580> m: 416.839.4945<tel:416.839.4945>
Get.club<http://www.get.club>

On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 10:18 AM, Robertson, Andrew <Andrew.Robertson at edelman.com<mailto:Andrew.Robertson at 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

+44 7921 588 770<tel:%2B44%207921%20588%20770>

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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
[https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/0YSzqpwNjDevTrBodPS3MofEOt_uN3LuRBjW4mS1QaViESnLSLhGTA3eLyKNtVfaOC-i_Q=w1200-h630-p]<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WIhKvD7mvK7xHyRWGNK1AcDTK7Yhdt69RXuPKcpTIZA/edit?usp=sharing>

TESTING email at nic.club.xlsx<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WIhKvD7mvK7xHyRWGNK1AcDTK7Yhdt69RXuPKcpTIZA/edit?usp=sharing>
docs.google.com<http://docs.google.com>
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<tel:954.530.2580> m: 416.839.4945<tel:416.839.4945>
Get.club<http://www.get.club>

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