16 Describe the applicant's efforts to ensure that there are no known operational or rendering problems concerning the applied-for gTLD string

Prototypical answer:

The string consists of 4 ASCII characters, each one of which currently occurs as part of existing and operational gTLD strings. We are not aware of any possible rendering problems concerning the string ʺREITʺ

We are aware of the issue of universal acceptability and accept that some incorrectly configured third-party software may consider ʺREITʺ to be an invalid string, in the same way that other TLDs such as ʺ.INFOʺ and “.MUSEUMʺ are also at times considered ʺinvalid.ʺ Applicant will work to raise awareness of the issue of universal acceptance of .REIT and other new gTLDs. CentralNic has previously contributed to these efforts, such as by publication of TLD Verification code for the PHP programming language.

We are aware that a significant fraction of queries sent to the DNS root servers are for invalid TLDs such as ʺ.LOCALʺ or ʺ.LANʺ, and that the delegation of these TLDs could cause previously undiscovered configuration errors to result in operational problems for other operators. We have reviewed the research in this area, including the SAC 045 report from ICANNʹs Security and Stability Advisory Committee, data from the Day In The Life of the Internet project, and other sources, and are not aware of any significant volume of invalid root server queries related to .REIT. Therefore we feel confident that the delegation of this string will not result in any operation problems for Internet users.

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