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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Would be a great question if it is possible to work in today! <br><br><div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div><hr id="stopSpelling">From: sdelbianco@netchoice.org<br>To: zahid@dndrc.com<br>CC: bc-gnso@icann.org<br>Subject: [bc-gnso] Question for the Board during new gTLD discussion today: contention between Singulars and Plurals<br>Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2013 05:10:43 +0000<br><br>
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<div>Zahid — in case you have an opportunity in this session with the Board, please ask about their reaction to the perplexing results on String Similarity:</div>
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<div>The results of ICANN's String confusion panel were that <span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">
singular and plurals of the same string were not placed in the same contention sets. Concerns include:</span></div>
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<div><font class="ecxApple-style-span" face="Calibri,sans-serif">1. Consumer confusion. Particularly when they hear a TLD in conversation or in the media, then can't remember if it was singular or plural. </font></div>
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<div><font class="ecxApple-style-span" face="Calibri,sans-serif">3. Terrible Precedent: applicants in future rounds could propose plurals of established TLDs (.nets, .books, .apps )</font></div>
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<div><font class="ecxApple-style-span" face="Calibri,sans-serif">4. Reflects poorly on the gTLD expansion</font></div>
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<div><font class="ecxApple-style-span" face="Calibri,sans-serif">Background: After several months of careful study, ICANN's experts published their contention sets on 28-Feb. (<a href="http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-26feb13-en.htm" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline;" target="_blank">link</a>)
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<div>They "identified" 230 "exact match contention sets" where multiple applicants sought the exact same string.</div>
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<div>And they found just 2 "non-exact match contention sets" (unicom and unicorm; hoteis and hotels )</div>
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<div>Unbelievably, they did not consider the singular and plural versions of key words to be confusingly similar. </div>
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<div>This means we will get new TLDs for both the singular and plural versions of keywords such as:</div>
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<div>ACCOUNTANT<span class="ecxApple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre;"> </span>ACCOUNTANTS</div>
<div>AUTO <span class="ecxApple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre;"> </span>AUTOS</div>
<div>CAR<span class="ecxApple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre;"> </span>CARS</div>
<div>CAREER<span class="ecxApple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre;"> </span>CAREERS</div>
<div>COUPON<span class="ecxApple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre;"> </span>COUPONS</div>
<div>CRUISE<span class="ecxApple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre;"> </span>CRUISES</div>
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<div>GAME<span class="ecxApple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre;"> </span>GAMES</div>
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