Dear All, Please see message below. I would encourage people to give their views on confusingly similar new gTLDs. You will see that .tv was ruled to not be similar to .tvs whereas .tour is confusingly similar to .tours Is this fair? Have your say and publish your comments on the links to the wiki or by responding to this thread and I will take your views to the ALAC when we deliberate this. Alternatively, feel free to send me a message offlist. Kind Regards, Sala P.S Grateful if you could do it this weekend as we have a tight deadline. Sent from my iPad Begin forwarded message:

From: ICANN At-Large Staff <staff@atlarge.icann.org> Date: September 14, 2013, 10:14:26 AM GMT+12:00 To: "alac-announce@atlarge-lists.icann.org" <alac-announce@atlarge-lists.icann.org> Subject: [ALAC-Announce] CALL FOR COMMENTS: ALAC Statement on the Confusingly Similar gTLDs

Dear All,

Olivier Crépin-Leblond, Chair of the ALAC, has asked that a call for comments be made on the draft "ALAC Statement on the Confusingly Similar gTLDs<https://community.icann.org/x/1AuMAg>" in preparation for the start of the ALAC ratification process.

The current draft, as well as additional information on the Public Comment, can be found on the At-Large Confusingly Similar gTLDs Workspace<https://community.icann.org/x/1AuMAg>.

Please submit any comments on the workspace using the comments function by 16-Monday-2013 12:00 UTC.

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<mailto:staff@atlarge.icann.org> _______________________________________________ ALAC-Announce mailing list ALAC-Announce@atlarge-lists.icann.org https://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/alac-announce

At-Large Official Site: http://www.atlarge.icann.org