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Joseph Yee

Canada

GDS Technical Services Principal Engineer

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Mike Harding

United States of America

Senior Infrastructure Engineer 2

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Racquel Ross

United States of America

Project Manager II

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Sierra Miller

United States of America

Sr. Software Engineer 2

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Margarita Palange

United States of America

Director, Accounting

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Alex Serot

United States of America

Event Production Manager

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Jing Yang

United States of America

Social Media Specialist

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George Sarkisyan

United States of America

GDD Services Manager

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Elena Martin

United States of America

Business Process Specialist

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Simay Guven

Türkiye, Republic of

Event Planner

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Casey Humphreville

United States of America

Vendor Management Specialist

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Lara Raynaud

United States of America

GDD Services Manager

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Ulrich Wisser

Sweden

Technical Engagement Manager, Europe

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Kelly Edwards

United States of America

Executive Assistant and Governance Coordinator

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Vara Kasaraneni

United States of America

Lead Product Manager

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Dimitris Zacharias

Belgium

Government and IGO Engagement Sr. Manager

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Zeynep Yilmaz

Türkiye, Republic of

Regional HR Manager, Middle East and Africa

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Holly Hudgins

United States of America

Business Process Sr. Specialist

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Brandon Brooks

United States of America

GDD Services Manager

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Hamid Segunmaru

United States of America

Staff Software Engineer

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John Emery

United States of America

Policy Development Support Sr. Specialist

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Saritha Pothuraju

United States of America

Sr. Software Engineer 1

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Ilana Licassi

United States of America

Research Specialist

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Eleen Loh

Singapore

Regional Office Administrator

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Yash Agarwal

India

Stakeholder Engagement Manager, South Asia

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Paola Diaz

Belgium

Regional Office Administrator

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Dinara Karimova

Belgium

Regional HR Manager, Europe

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Irina Douzadjian

United States of America

Risk Management and Internal Audit Sr. Director

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Cooper Jackson

United States of America

Staff Software Engineer - Platforms

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Erik Wenkel

United States of America

Sr. Software Engineer 2

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Neel Shah

United States of America

GDD Services Specialist

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Lana Tartre

United States of America

Temp – Office of the CFO

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David Waghalter

United States of America

Sr. Product Manager 2

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Holly Hester

United States of America

Executive Assistant

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Janay McWhorter

United States of America

GDS Technical Services Product Manager

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Ebru Keskin

Temp – Governance Support

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Isabelle Colas-Adeshina

United States of America

Sr. Manager, Policy Research & Stakeholder Programs

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Kurtis Lindqvist

United States of America

President and Chief Executive Officer

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John Bond

Spain

Principal Infrastructure Engineer - DNS

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Pia Canes

United States of America

Travel Services Sr. Planner

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Emre Ata

Türkiye, Republic of

Operations Specialist

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James Mitchell

United States of America

Director, IANA Technical Services

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Sara Sarraf

United States of America

Executive Assistant

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Sally Newell Cohen

United States of America

SVP, Global Communications

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Mauro Lozano

United States of America

Lead Infrastructure Engineer

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Annie Johnson

United States of America

Sr. Director, Global Compensation & Benefits

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Ivan Chang

United States of America

Paralegal Services Senior Manager

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Shruti Shah

United States of America

Staff Software Engineer

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."