On 22-Jan-2025, the ICANN Business Constituency (BC) filed a comment on the String Similarity Evaluation Guidelines for New gTLD Program: 2026 Round. Kindly see attached copy of the comment. Thanks to Rachael Shitanda for drafting. *Segunfunmi Olajide* *Vice Chair for Policy Coordination | ICANN Business Constituency <https://www.icannbc.org/>* *Software Consultant & Policy Expert | **Heritech Consulting <https://heritechconsulting.org/>*