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Charmaine Lim

Singapore

Contractual Compliance Sr. Specialist

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Danielle Rutherford

United States of America

Policy and Technology Development Support Manager

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Alex Morshed

United States of America

Sr. Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis

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Daniel Jones

United States of America

Senior Software Engineer 1

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Charlotte Anongos

United States of America

Senior Software Engineer 1

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Vera Major

Switzerland

Government and IGO Engagement Manager

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Ankur Chugh

United States of America

Senior Financial Analyst III

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Celine Lioe

Singapore

Regional Office Administrator, APAC

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Lamar Faulkner

United States of America

Director, Global Support

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Rowdy Sampietro

United States of America

Talent Acquisition Senior Manager

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Justin Caton

United States of America

Copywriter

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Dickson Chew

Singapore

Contractual Compliance Specialist

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Mikhail Anisimov

Russian Federation

ICANN Senior Stakeholder Engagement Manager Eastern Europe and Central Asia

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Shane Emery

United States of America

Senior Software Engineer 1

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Michael Kovach

United States of America

Associate Project Manager, Operations Service Delivery & Support

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Terry Blaser

United States of America

Lead Product Manager

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Yazid Akanho

Benin

Technical Engagement Senior Specialist

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Adam Szatyina

Procurement Manager

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Sarah Zagha

United States of America

Counsel

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Amanda Weddle

United States of America

Contractual Compliance Analyst

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Michael Knigge

United States of America

Writer

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Jill Ladwig

United States of America

Writer

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Lauren Hejazi

United States of America

Project Manager

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Ryan Pasca

United States of America

Senior Product Manager 1

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Breda Lund

United States of America

Editorial Supervisor

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Giovanni Seppia

Italy

Vice President, Implementation Operations

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Andre Abed

United States of America

Vice President, Relationship & Delivery Management

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Eric Palmer

United States of America

Senior Counsel

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JeNelle Haugen

United States of America

Quality Analyst Trainer

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Roberto Peña

United States of America

Economist

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David Prangnell

United States of America

Staff Software Engineer – Platforms

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Shannon Poon

United States of America

HRIS Manager

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Jeffrey Graham

United States of America

Project Coordinator

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Berry Cobb

United States of America

Senior Program Manager, Policy Development Support

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Odeline MacDonald

Belgium

Associate General Counsel, European Data Protection

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Andrea Glandon

United States of America

Policy Operations Coordinator

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Maritza Alarcon

United States of America

Operations Specialist II

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Brian Villaroman

United States of America

Contractual Compliance Analyst

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Amenah Alhakeem

Türkiye, Republic of

Communications Coordinator, EMEA

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David Tobias

United States of America

Assistant Manager, Communications

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Jim Cook

United States of America

Technical Lead, Software Engineering

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Giose McGinty

United States of America

Stakeholder Engagement Regional Specialist, North America, and Latin America & Caribbean

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Eduardo Corzo

United States of America

Senior Infrastructure Engineer 1

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Gökhan Pamukçu

Türkiye, Republic of

Global Support Analyst I

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Thomas Jones

United States of America

Senior Information Security Engineer 2

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Janelle McAlister

United States of America

Strategic Initiatives Senior Program Manager

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Ted Gonzalez

United States of America

Finance Manager

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Vijay Sukumar

United States of America

Senior Staff Software Engineer

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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."