Seems the idea has some support and we have a few people who are willing to share their knowledge and experience. Here's the list of those who responded on 1, 2 and 3.

1. Existing ICANN TLD programs (Fast Track, Applicant Guidebook)

Oksana Prykhodko, Fahd Batayneh, iftakhar shah

2. IDN ccTLD registries - variants on the top level

Fahd Batayneh, iftakhar shah

3. TLD registries - variants on the second level,

Fahd Batayneh,  Vladimir Shadrunov , Behnam Esfahbod, Andrzej Bartosiewicz

If someone active in the IETF community would be willing to give a presentation on how existing DNS standards and related RFC handle string similarity that would also be great. Additionally some feedback from the IP lawyers would be appreciated as to whether the variant problem exists in the IP realm.


May I defer it to the chair or to the moderator of this list to respond regarding how a group-wide webinar can be implemented.

Thanks,
Vladimir Shadrunov

On 3 July 2011 15:20, Andrzej Bartosiewicz <andrzej@yonita.com> wrote:

On 6/30/2011 4:45 PM, Vladimir Shadrunov wrote:

3. TLD registries - variants on the second level

Happy to share my experience with variants on TLD level.

Best,
Andrzej

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