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<p class="MsoNormal">On behalf of Nominet UK I am pleased to provide our comments on the Name Collision Analysis Project Study 1 Proposed Final Report.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The proposed Final Report provides a very clear and accessible overview of the subject of Name Collisions.
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<p class="MsoNormal">The Study 1 goals, namely to:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Document prior work on name collisions;<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Assess name collision datasets; and
<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Recommend whether or not proposed further studies 2 and 3 should be performed<o:p></o:p></li></ol>
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<p class="MsoNormal">all appear to have been delivered upon in the proposed Final Report.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The clear conclusions of the proposed Final Report are that Name Collisions are a diminishing issue. The lack of new published research in the area in the past three years, and the success of the controlled intervention as a mitigation,
should give the ICANN community considerable comfort that Name Collision is no longer a pressing issue in terms of the stability and security of the DNS.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Going forwards, due to the absence of any datasets containing root causes, Study 2 seems redundant. We agree that the Name Collision risks for proposed new TLDs, including any new ccTLDs since this issue is not restricted to gTLDs, be investigated
on a case by case basis. Similarly Study 3 and the outstanding questions around corp, home and mail as TLDs whilst unresolved, are a discreet problem which need not delay further rounds of new gTLDs as envisaged by the Subsequent Procedures PDP.<o:p></o:p></p>
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