Fresh Top Level Domain Names still facing compatibility issues

Notable software still not recognizing fresh domain names.

Registrants of second level domain names under fresh TLDs such as .photography and .tattoo are learning firsthand regarding the issue of Universal Acceptance.

The term refers to systems not recognizing fresh top level domain names for what they are, and thus not being compatible with domain names ending in fresh monikers such as .holdings.

And while the issue is toughest on non-Latin top level domains, it still affects all fresh domains.

Twitter recently started recognizing some fresh domain names and automatically converting such web addresses to links.

Yet hurdles remain. Apple’s Safari browser still doesn’t recognize sites like nic.sexy as web addresses when typed in the address bar, at least on many devices. It appears they are only recognized if you type in http:// first.

If you click a link to a fresh domain it will work (since links have http://) but otherwise it takes you to a search results page.

The same goes for my Android device. The browser doesn’t recognize these domains unless I type http:// ahead of the domain name.

These issues will slowly be resolved, but it places users of these fresh domains at a disadvantage for now.