hi all 

ANNOUNCEMENT:

a major research project aimed at developing tools and techniques to identify and mitigate name-collision risks was announced yesterday by Verisign.  i wrote a blog post that describes the name-collision problem and encourages researchers to get involved with that research effort.  please promote that project to your colleagues.  i've added the link to the "handy links" at the bottom of this note.

here are the strings delegated last week

DATE STRING REGISTRY
10 December 2013 .RUHR Regiodot GmbH & Co. KG

Description of the name-collision problem and link to mitigation research project -- http://www.haven2.com/index.php/archives/name-collision-research

ICANN's "Name Collision Resources and Information" page - http://www.icann.org/en/help/name-collision

ICANN's list of all delegated new gTLDs  - http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/program-status/delegated-strings

mikey