Its not normal practice and its specific to google only. Google do not strip while delivering it to others, its only while accepting for their own @gmail addresses. Dr. Ajay DATA | Founder & CEO Get email id like अजय@डाटा.भारत in your own language,visit www.xgenplus.com From: Don Hollander MailId : [68280116]To: "ua-eai@icann .org" Subject: [UA-EAI] Normalisation normsDate: 19 Apr 2017 12:55:38 PM During last week&rsquos discussion we talked about normalisation of case (upper case/lower case) and we affirmed our suggestions outlined in the Quick Guide to EAI . What are people doing about punctuation within a mailbox name? I THINK that Google strips all punctuation marks when finding the mailbox to deliver to. Thus, don.hollander@gmail.com = don_hollander@gmail.com = donhollander@gmail.com Is this another Good Practice to include in our EAI guides? Don Don Hollander Universal Acceptance Steering Group Skype: don_hollander _______________________________________________UA-EAI mailing listUA-EAI@icann.orghttps://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/ua-eaiDo not Remove:[HID]2017041912553698[-HID]