The ZA Central Registry (ZACR) said it is aware that certain users are experiencing challenges when using\u00a0a ZAdotCity domain – .capetown, .joburg, or .durban – in email addresses.<\/p>\n
ZACR CEO\u00a0Lucky Masilela said the newness of ZAdotCity domain names, and associated email addresses, may face certain hurdles.<\/p>\n
“For example, email servers and policies within public and private organisations may not recognise or allow access to emails having a ZAdotCity extension such as lucky@registry.joburg.”<\/p>\n
This is because\u00a0organisations have email systems that only recognise domain names and associated email addresses with two or three character labels – such as .com, or .co.za – said the ZACR.<\/p>\n
While ZAdotCities domains have been plagued by these legacy issues<\/a><\/strong> since their launch in 2014, they are not the only top-level domains affected.<\/p>\n Despite the fact that Internet standards dating back to 1987<\/a><\/strong> allow for top-level domains of up to 63 characters,\u00a0many legacy\u00a0checks used to\u00a0ensure the validity of email addresses\u00a0don’t comply with this.<\/p>\n The ZACR\u00a0has called on\u00a0local IT managers to review and adapt their organisations’ email system policies to accept emails from domains that use a dotCity domain.<\/p>\n “The ZACR has grown the co.za domain into a notable 1.1 million plus Second Level Domain registrations,” said Masilela.<\/p>\n “With the support of South Africa’s IT community, we can likewise grow dotCapeTown, dotJoburg, and dotDurban to impressive levels.”<\/p>\n Over 11,000 ZAdotCity domains have been registered by the ZACR and its registrar partners since their launch in November 2014.<\/p>\n The ZA Central Registry said it is aware that certain users are experiencing challenges when using a ZAdotCity domain in email addresses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":113591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[12343,19486,26622],"class_list":["post-196256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-lucky-masilela","tag-za-central-registry-zacr","tag-zadotcities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196256"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196256"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196260,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196256\/revisions\/196260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0dotCapeTown email addresses causing headaches<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"