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

Mon Jun 6 16:04:11 UTC 2016

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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Dear Webmaster

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, ...  ].

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.

For additional technical resources and general information on the Universal
Acceptance Steering Group, ICANN and others, please visit us at: _________.

Sincerely
[ name ]
UASG staff member
[ email ]

The Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG)
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:
...

Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
Icann is the governing body that ... [ Fill this in  ]  ... runs the
internet ;)

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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?
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> 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
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> Just my two (Euro) cents
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> Regards
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> Michele
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> --
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> Mr Michele Neylon
>
> Blacknight Solutions
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> Hosting, Colocation & Domains
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> http://www.blacknight.host/
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> http://blog.blacknight.com/
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> http://ceo.hosting/
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> Intl. +353 (0) 59  9183072
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> Direct Dial: +353 (0)59 9183090
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> Ireland  Company No.: 370845
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> *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
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> 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.
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> 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
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> "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>
>
>
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> On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 2:20 AM, Don Hollander <don.hollander at icann.org>
> wrote:
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> 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*
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> Dear Website Administrator,
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> 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.
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> 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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> 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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