Tool Helps Internet Master Top-level Domains

Tuesday, May 20, 2008 - 00:14 in Mathematics & Economics

At the request of a worldwide Internet organization, a computer scientist at NIST developed an algorithm that may guide applicants in proposing new "top-level domains." The NIST algorithm checks whether the newly proposed name is confusingly similar to existing ones by looking for visual likenesses in its appearance.

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