https://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-01mar13-en.htm <https://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-01mar13-en.htm> String Similarity: IDN Variant Review Results1 March 2013 In an announcement <https://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-26feb13-en.htm> on 26 February 2013, ICANN published a list of string similarity contention sets wherein two or more applied-for gTLD strings are identical or so nearly resemble one another visually that they are likely to cause confusion. In ICANN's New gTLD program, string similarity checks on Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) strings go beyond visual resemblance. The string similarity panel has now completed a review of potential IDN variant characters. Based on this review, two (2) contention sets of potential IDN variant strings have been identified. U-LabelUnicode Code PointsA-LabelApplication ID 盛贸饭店 盛貿飯店U+76DB, U+8D38, U+996D, U+5E97 U+76DB, U+8CBF, U+98EF, U+5E97xn--hxt035czzpffl xn--hxt035cmppuel1-940-43388 1-940-75591 点看 點看U+70B9, U+770B U+9EDE, U+770Bxn--3pxu8k xn--c1yn36f1-1254-85868 1-1254-86222 As per section 1.3.3 of the Applicant Guidebook "Multiple applicants apply for strings that are identified by ICANN as variants of one another. These applications will be placed in a contention set and will follow the contention resolution procedures in Module 4." For more information and the procedures used to perform the IDN variant review see the IDN Variant TLDs - Integrated Issues Report, Appendix 5 at http://www.icann.org/en/topics/idn/idn-vip-integrated-issues-final-clean-20f eb12-en.pdf <https://www.icann.org/en/topics/idn/idn-vip-integrated-issues-final-clean-2 0feb12-en.pdf> [PDF, 2.1 MB]. The IDN Variant TLD Program is tasked to develop solutions and define necessary processes that must be in place to enable future delegation of IDN variant TLDs. More information about this program can be found at: http://www.icann.org/en/resources/idn/variant-tlds <https://www.icann.org/en/resources/idn/variant-tlds> View all String Contention Sets: PDF <http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/program-status/application-results/similarity- contention-01mar13-en.pdf> [167 KB], CSV <https://icann.box.com/shared/static/y4h0wywlsbk9nlwgvqsg.csv> [67 KB] Regards, Heidi Ullrich, Silvia Vivanco, Matt Ashtiani, Gisella Gruber, Nathalie Peregrine and Julia Charvolen ICANN Policy Staff in support of ALAC E-mail: staff@atlarge.icann.org One World, One Internet