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Name: Michael Bauland
Date: 13 Jan 2026
Email: [email protected]
Original Public Comment: String Similarity Evaluation Guidelines for New gTLD Program: 2026 Round
Summary of Submission

There was a public comment for the data to be used for the automatic pre-processing asking that 'q' and 'g' might be confusingly similar when used with underlining. Putting this ASCII pair into a Category 1-3 in the source data is not a good option, as it would cause too many false positives.

Nevertheless, the panel should take special care when 'q' and 'g' are involved that labels are not confusingly similar due to potential underlining. So any labels differing only in 'q' and 'g' (e.g., good vs. qood) should be looked at by the panel, even if not flagged by the pre-processing algorithm.