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Variant characters occur where a single character has two or more representations, which may or may not look visually similar. Variant TLDs are those which contain one or more characters that have variant characters. Allowing variant TLDs may result in user confusion, while excluding them may ‘disenfranchise’ cultures that use the characters in the excluded TLD strings.
