Dear colleagues, We published a new article by Geoff Huston on RIPE Labs: New gTLD Concerns: Dotless Names and Name Collisions https://labs.ripe.net/Members/gih/dotless-names In the long discussions about the new generic Top level Domains (gTLD), there were two technical topics that were the subject of many assertions and little in the way of observed data. The first concerned the viability of a so-called "dotless" name, where the gTLD label itself contains an IP address in the DNS, and the second concerns the concept of "name collisions" between existing local use of a name and the same name being delegated as a new gTLD. This article explores these two topics, and adds some data to the debate in the way of observed behaviours of the way common operating systems and browsers handle names. Kind Regards, Mirjam Kuehne RIPE NCC