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What happens after the Name Collision Initial Assessment?

Once the Name Collision Initial Assessment is completed, ICANN publishes an Initial Assessment report describing the methodology and findings. A Public Comment period follows to allow for community feedback. If an applied-for string (including its allocatable variant strings) is not identified as a high-risk string, it enters the Temporary Delegation queue. If a string is identified as a high-risk string, the applicant may propose a Name Collision High-Risk Mitigation Plan, after it has resolved contention (if any), for evaluation as part of the Application Evaluation process in order to proceed in the program.