The importance of Universal Acceptance, and what is being done to improve it. Have you ever typed an email address into a web form and it wasn’t accepted because your address ends in a new top level domain? Or noticed that a domain name wasn’t ... Continue Reading1 Comment
It’s 2023 and Universal Acceptance still sucks
· Policy & LawNon-.com domains still struggle to work on every platform. New top level domain names started to roll out to the public ten years ago this year. One of the big issues facing these domains is "Universal Acceptance." As ICANN puts it: Universal ... Continue Reading2 Comments
Mailchimp has challenges with non-ASCII characters
· UncategorizedMailchimp supports IDNs in domain names, but not the username portion of email addresses. I recently received an email from ICANN's Universal Acceptance Outreach group about an error on Domain Name Wire. Universal Acceptance refers to websites ... Continue Reading6 Comments
Company says new TLD is “cool”, but comes with drawbacks
· UncategorizedClassic Engineering has a cool domain name, but founder Eduardo Umaña sometimes has to explain it to people. A couple weeks ago I profiled Huemor, a company that moved from a .com domain name to the new top level domain .Rocks. Today I'm going to ... Continue Reading13 Comments
New Top Level Domain Names still facing compatibility issues
· UncategorizedImportant software still not recognizing new domain names. Registrants of second level domain names under new TLDs such as .photography and .tattoo are learning firsthand about the issue of Universal Acceptance. The term refers to systems not ... Continue Reading4 Comments
