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NCAP Study Two was designed to understand the root cause of most of the name collisions and to also understand the impact of any choice made regarding .CORP, .HOME, and .MAIL.
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History of the Name Collision Analysis Project
Name collision refers to the situation in which a name that is used in one namespace may be used in a different namespace, where users, software, or other functions in that domain may misinterpret it.
In the context of top level domains, the term “name collision” refers to the situation in which a name that is used in the global Domain Name System (DNS) namespace defined in the root zone as published by the root management partners -ICANN and VeriSign, (the RZM namespace) may be used in a different namespace (non-RZM) , where users, software, or other functions in that domain may misinterpret it.
DEFINING "HARM"
We propose the following broad categories based on our analysis of the literature and data reported:
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