[AfrICANN-discuss] Help with .africa history

[Nii Narku Quaynor]

On Jul 29, 2012, at 15:36, SM <sm at resistor.net> wrote:

> At 07:33 AM 7/29/2012, McTim wrote:
>> Either there are two strings (.dotAfrica and .africa) being applied
>> for, in which case they may (or may not) enter into string contention
>> due to being "confusingly similar", OR there are 2 identical strings
>> being applied for.
> 
> The term "confusing" string is used in technical forums to refer to different code points which can be visually similar.  I would not describe the case mentioned above as related to "confusing" strings.
> 
Some of the IPR world see it differently ie the first way as related to cyber squatting?

Nii 
> Regards,
> -sm
> 
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