[UA-discuss] interesting UA issue discovered

[Mark Svancarek]

My mail service protects me by converting all links in incoming emails to "safelinks"..

What was the original strings which was converted? (Irony alert: Try sending it in a form which won't be identified by EOP as a link...)

-----Original Message-----
From: UA-discuss [mailto:ua-discuss-bounces at icann.org] On Behalf Of Edmon
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2018 11:12 PM
To: 'Universal Acceptance' <ua-discuss at icann.org>
Subject: [UA-discuss] interesting UA issue discovered

We have been advocating for more lenience in allowing new TLDs in linkification.... seems like we just found an interesting issue that propped up...

One of the tools (social media one) converted a domain we were posting in brackets: (https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fymi.asia&data=02%7C01%7Cmarksv%40microsoft.com%7C448bfb44ba7d441ea94f08d567b0c905%7Cee3303d7fb734b0c8589bcd847f1c277%7C1%7C0%7C636528931345813598&sdata=mnnfx0k9BR5HEwVkhlKl18NTEq6ROMCkbbTlN3YkUts%3D&reserved=0) into a link for "ymi.asia)" included the close-bracket in the link... accidentally creating a dead link, we suspect they tried to update their previous script to allow anything after the dot until a space... should we look into any of our documents to flag this?..

Edmon