[UA-discuss] Some universal acceptance problems last 15+ years...

[Richard Merdinger]

True geek ☺


From: <ua-discuss-bounces at icann.org> on behalf of Ram Mohan <rmohan at afilias.info>
Date: Wednesday, September 28, 2016 at 4:53 PM
To: "UA-discuss at icann.org" <UA-discuss at icann.org>
Subject: Re: [UA-discuss] Some universal acceptance problems last 15+ years...

I mis-stated that .INFO was the world’s first 4-character TLD - .ARPA came before ☺ t/h David Conrad


From: Ram Mohan [mailto:rmohan at afilias.info<mailto:rmohan at afilias.info>]
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2016 1:50 PM
To: UA-discuss at icann.org<mailto:UA-discuss at icann.org> (UA-discuss at icann.org<mailto:UA-discuss at icann.org>)
Subject: Some universal acceptance problems last 15+ years...

On Sep 12, 2001, I helped launch the first non 2/3 character TLD, .INFO. Many of you have heard about how we struggled to get applications, browsers, web forms and email systems to recognize the world’s first four-character TLD as a legitimate extension, including my creation of the Office of the CTO (in a 3 person startup) to get large companies to return my calls.

Well, 15+ years later, today I was on the website of the Pennsylvania state government, and filled in my email address (ending in .INFO). I hit submit, and here is the prompt that came up. I hit OK, and the site accepted my email and I moved forward with my tasks, but it’s galling that some programmer _recently_ decided that a non 2/3 character TLD based email address merited a warning message.

[cid:image001.png at 01D219AE.4390E960]

Goes to show how long bad habits persist. Also goes to show why the UASG’s work is important.

-Ram

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ram Mohan
Executive Vice President & CTO
Afilias |Ireland|Canada|USA|India|China
o: +1.215.706.5700 x103; m: +1.215.431.0958; f: +1.215.706.5701
Skype:gliderpilot30 |@rmohan123|www.linkedin.com/in/rmohan<mailto:|@rmohan123|www.linkedin.com/in/rmohan>

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/ua-discuss/attachments/20160928/80b99bf5/attachment.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image001.png
Type: image/png
Size: 35361 bytes
Desc: image001.png
URL: <http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/ua-discuss/attachments/20160928/80b99bf5/image001.png>