[At-Large] IDN Variants in the market place

[Sivasubramanian M]

Thank you Sala. Such a broad macroview by ALAC as you have suggested would
lead to solutions through the ICANN processes.

Sivasubramanian M

On Sat, Jul 21, 2018, 4:05 AM Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro <
salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com> wrote:

> I support this Siva and would call on the ALAC chair and ALAC to direct
> the At Large Working Group on IDNs to put a paper together for the
> community to input into to capture, Siva's concerns and those views averse
> to the notion so we can have a broad macro view of the same.
>
> Particularly, the major RALOs that would be affected are EURALO and APRALO
> and notwithstanding other RALOs at all.
>
> Many thanks,
> Sala
>
> On Thu, 19 Jul 2018, 10:19 pm Sivasubramanian M, <6.Internet at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Please take a look at the attached screenshot of a domainer's offer to
>> sell single character IDNs, for instance an IDN variant (lookalike) of the
>> ASCII character X, which sets a harmful trend. This is an issue if
>> confusability.
>>
>> I understand that the Registries (are required to?) maintain a list of
>> harmful names for their TLDs, but there is no common minimal list of
>> harmful names. One possible way to achieve this is for the Registries, at
>> least in the ASCII space, to volunteer to feed their respective list of
>> harmful names into a common Registry Stakeholder database, and then draw up
>> a common minimum list of harmful domain names that any Registry could avoid
>> registering.
>>
>> If At-Large could shape this as a workable suggestion, it could formally
>> go to the Registry Stakeholders.
>>
>> Sivasubramanian M
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