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A "podcast" is audio or video content distributed on the Internet in episodes that have a consistent format. (The word originally came from combining "iPod" and "broadcast.") Audio podcasts from ICANN play in any MP3 player (using Windows Media Player, Quicktime, iTunes, etc). You can listen to individual episodes by selecting an episode and clicking its title to download it. You can subscribe to our podcasts via RSS feed. If you subscribe using iTunes, each new episode we publish will automatically download to your computer and play in iTunes whenever you want. After you have downloaded an episode, it stays on your device, which means you can listen to it even when you don't have an Internet connection.


Photograph of Roberto Gaetano Discussing the At-Large ICANN Board Seat

Roberto Gaetano Discusses the At-Large ICANN Board Seat

16 December 2013

Roberto Gaetano discusses the nominating process for the At-Large Community's seat on the ICANN Board, commonly known as seat number 15.

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Cyrus Namazi Addresses Name Collision Mitigation

Cyrus Namazi Addresses Name Collision Mitigation

6 December 2013

ICANN's Vice President of Domain Name Services, Cyrus Namazi, advises IT professionals on how to plan for and mitigate potential name collisions.

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Fadi Chehadé Speaks at the 2013 IGF

Fadi Chehadé Speaks at the 2013 IGF

5 November 2013

ICANN President and CEO Fadi Chehade delivers a speech at the opening ceremony of the 2013 Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Bali, Indonesia. For more information about the IGF, please visit www.intgovforum.org.

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Yasmin Omer Discusses Dot shabaka

Yasmin Omer Discusses Dot shabaka

5 November 2013

DotShabaka Registry General Manager Yasmin Omer discusses dot shabaka's role in the internationalization of generic Top Level Domains.

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Daniel Negari Discusses Dot xyz

Daniel Negari Discusses Dot xyz

5 November 2013

XYZ.com CEO Daniel Negari discusses dot xyz, a new generic Top Level Domain for a new generation.

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Roland Laplante Discusses Dot pink

Roland Laplante Discusses Dot pink

5 November 2013

Affilias CMO Roland Laplante answers the question "Could .pink become more popular than .com?"

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Carolin Silbernagl Discusses Dot hiv

Carolin Silbernagl Discusses Dot hiv

5 November 2013

dotHIV CEO Carolin Silbernagl talks about how new generic Top Level Domains could be used to deal with humanitarian issues.

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Domain Name System
Internationalized Domain Name ,IDN,"IDNs are domain names that include characters used in the local representation of languages that are not written with the twenty-six letters of the basic Latin alphabet ""a-z"". An IDN can contain Latin letters with diacritical marks, as required by many European languages, or may consist of characters from non-Latin scripts such as Arabic or Chinese. Many languages also use other types of digits than the European ""0-9"". The basic Latin alphabet together with the European-Arabic digits are, for the purpose of domain names, termed ""ASCII characters"" (ASCII = American Standard Code for Information Interchange). These are also included in the broader range of ""Unicode characters"" that provides the basis for IDNs. The ""hostname rule"" requires that all domain names of the type under consideration here are stored in the DNS using only the ASCII characters listed above, with the one further addition of the hyphen ""-"". The Unicode form of an IDN therefore requires special encoding before it is entered into the DNS. The following terminology is used when distinguishing between these forms: A domain name consists of a series of ""labels"" (separated by ""dots""). The ASCII form of an IDN label is termed an ""A-label"". All operations defined in the DNS protocol use A-labels exclusively. The Unicode form, which a user expects to be displayed, is termed a ""U-label"". The difference may be illustrated with the Hindi word for ""test"" — परीका — appearing here as a U-label would (in the Devanagari script). A special form of ""ASCII compatible encoding"" (abbreviated ACE) is applied to this to produce the corresponding A-label: xn--11b5bs1di. A domain name that only includes ASCII letters, digits, and hyphens is termed an ""LDH label"". Although the definitions of A-labels and LDH-labels overlap, a name consisting exclusively of LDH labels, such as""icann.org"" is not an IDN."