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Universal Acceptance Issues with .TUBE, ASCII and IDN Domains

by zacwest on 10/14/23, 10:22 PM with 3 comments

• by azeemba on 10/14/23, 11:31 PM

  I sympathize with the author, they have a gTLD that is being treated differently then more common TLDs. But it's hardly ICANN's place to get involved. The biggest issue here is usability.

  People make typo's often and software can't always be sure if it should linkify something _just_ because it contains a dot. The definite way to be sure is people add the scheme `https://` or linkify the text using an app-specific way. Outside of that, every app has to make its own usability decision and some apps will correctly decide to ignore some unpopular TLDs for the sake of reducing annoyance.

• by JoeyBananas on 10/15/23, 1:05 PM

  I find this hilarious.

  > We are researching whether Microsoft has similar issues, but all of these efforts are draining our corporate executive time and resources, to do a job that should have been done by ICANN years ago

  Are we supposed to care about these poor executives, working hard to write angry emails to various private organizations trying to get their FOTM TLDs added to some regex? I'd tell them to go pound sand!