Hi, you are correct, dot(.) does not matter on gmail/facebook.Deepak Singhal From: Mark Svancarek MailId : [68369966]To: deepak ,don hollander ,"ua-eai@icann.org" Subject: RE: [UA-EAI] Re : Normalisation normsDate: 22 Apr 2017 02:55:04 AM Hmm, I&rsquom pretty sure don.hollander@gmail.com = donhollander@gmail.com I don&rsquot know about any other punctuation. I have verified that mark.svancarek@live.com (a real mailbox) is NOT the same as marksvancarek@live.com. (This is the Hotmail/Livemail/Outlook.com consumer email service.) From: ua-eai-bounces@icann.org [mailto:ua-eai-bounces@icann.org] On Behalf Of deepak Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2017 1:00 AM To: don hollander `ua-eai@icann.org` Subject: [UA-EAI] Re : Normalisation norms Hi Don, The email address you have mentioned are treated differently on email server. don.hollander@gmail.com,don_hollander@gmail.com and donhollander@gmail.com are different mail box. Regards Deepak Singhal. From: Don Hollander don.hollander@icann.org> MailId : [68280110] To: "ua-eai@icann.org" ua-eai@icann.org> Subject: [UA-EAI] Normalisation norms Date: 19 Apr 2017 12:55:19 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 list UA-EAI@icann.org https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/ua-eai Do not Remove: [HID]20170419125518803[-HID] [XGENFOOTER] [-XGENFOOTER]