<div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">Thanks, Michele, to bring that again. I am not surprised, this is typical issue that owners of email addresses, as this one, have with many institutions.</div><div dir="auto">What I wrote couple of years ago, still stands - you need to have a backup email account, because your email address under a new gtld or idn domain name is not acceptable everywhere. </div><div dir="auto">It also means - your domain name is "half of the product" - still not finished, the value is questionable and therefore hard to sell. 28.000 domain names under .family is quite success...</div><div dir="auto">There's interesting parallel about this, without any intention to enter into politics:</div><div dir="auto">The reasoning to not fix the issue because of low number of domain names in .family is quite similar to the way how some autocratic regimes threat minorities. And that's a form of racism towards new gtlds and idns, but above that - not applying "international laws" (standards). Sounds familiar? ;)</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Cheers,</div><div dir="auto">Dušan</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">čet, 29. jul 2021. 07:01 Jim DeLaHunt via UA-discuss <<a href="mailto:ua-discuss@icann.org">ua-discuss@icann.org</a>> je napisao/la:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Michele Neylon:</p>
<p>Thank you for bringing this to the list's attention.<br>
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<div>On 2021-07-28 09:00, Michele Neylon -
Blacknight via UA-discuss wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/osuola/a_word_of_caution_about_that_unique_top_level/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/osuola/a_word_of_caution_about_that_unique_top_level/</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p>Summary for those who don't want to follow the link: <br>
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<p>Many companies computer systems do not yet accept a .family
email address</p>
<p>So far I have been forced to keep in my old email on file with
several larger banks, utility companies and some web services. I
am only on day 1 and I have seen about a 25% rejection rate. Not
good.</p>
I can only hope over time this will be corrected.<br>
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<p>The part of this story which surprises me is that a Latin-limited
top-level domain which is outside the traditional 2-3 character
set is rejected so often. I thought most sites had moved beyond
rejecting unfamiliar top-level domains. <br>
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<p>I do have personal experience, and see data which confirms, that
many sites still reject email addresses based on character set. I
have an email addresses with '+' signs in them, e.g.
<a href="mailto:list+uasg@jdlh.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><list+uasg@jdlh.com></a>. Those get rejected way too often. It
is maybe 17%, not 25%. <br>
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<p>If I get the chance, I try to give the organisation feedback that
they should not reject email addresses with '+' signs... and if
they have a hard time with '+' signs, they are going to be really
surprised when email addresses in Hindi and Chinese arrive at
their door!</p>
<p>Best regards,<br>
—Jim DeLaHunt</p>
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