All,

Prompted by a spirited discussion last night at the gala about the Council's standing to move to address the singular/plural strings not flagged by the contention review, Marika has unearthed the Council's previous action on confusingly similar strings in the new gTLD program.

Perhaps, in our wrap-up, we can talk a bit about whether this is a matter on which we want to act.

Cheers,

Berard

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Subject: Confusingly similar
From: Marika Konings <marika.konings@icann.org>
Date: 4/10/13 6:36 pm
To: "john@crediblecontext.com" <john@crediblecontext.com>

Hi John,

The only recommendation that I found related to user confusion in the new gTLD Report that was adopted by the GNSO Council is 'Recommendation 2 Discussion -- Strings must not be confusingly similar to an existing top-level domain' (see http://gnso.icann.org/en/issues/new-gtlds/pdp-dec05-fr-parta-08aug07.htm). It may be worth checking with some of the others involved at that time (Avri, Jeff?) to see if they have any further specific direction on whether there are other recommendations in relation to this issue as this was discussed long before my time at ICANN.

With best regards,

Marika