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Neelam Kumar

United States of America

Project Manager II

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Jonathan Phillips

United States of America

Operations Coordinator

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Tyler Carroll

United States of America

IANA Services Manager

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Romulo Chacin Gonzalez

United States of America

Contractual Compliance Analyst

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Paul Hoffman

United States of America

Distinguished Technologist

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Tracy Dallarda

United States of America

Vice President, Global Communications

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Michelle DeSmyter

United States of America

Policy Operations Coordinator

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Frederick Gransee

United States of America

Sr. Product Manager 2

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David Anderson

United States of America

New gTLD Program Communications Manager

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Madeleine Werbelow

United States of America

Grant Program Coordinator

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Devan Reed

United States of America

Policy Operations Coordinator

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Alex Nubla

United States of America

Director, Data Center and Cloud Operations

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Salih Akkaya

Türkiye, Republic of

Travel Support Services Planner

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Seda Akbulut

Türkiye, Republic of

Universal Acceptance (UA) Program Manager

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Sweta Chalasani

United States of America

Staff Software Engineer

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Becky McGilley

United States of America

Government and IGO Engagement Director

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Lawrence He

United States of America

Project Manager I

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Dee Washington

United States of America

Program Lead Analyst

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Lee Drasin

United States of America

Senior Director, Digital & Creative Services

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Dan Bougere

United States of America

IANA Technical Services Senior Manager

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June Okal

Kenya

Stakeholder Engagement Senior Manager, East & Southern Africa

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David Huberman

United States of America

Regional Technical Engagement Manager

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Charla Shambley

United States of America

Sr. Manager Operations, Service Delivery & Support

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Shayna Robinson

United States of America

Grant Program Director

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Seher Sagiroglu

Türkiye, Republic of

Stakeholder Engagement Sr. Specialist- Middle East and Africa

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Noah Ross

United States of America

Director, Software Engineering

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Shawn Seah

Singapore

Global Support Analyst III

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Rodrigo Saucedo

Plurinational State of Bolivia

Stakeholder Engagement Director, Andean Region and LAC Strategic Initiatives

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Pete Elsesser

United States of America

Senior End User Support 1

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Roger Lim

Sr. Director, Contractual Compliance (APAC)

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Sara Caplis

United States of America

Director, Meetings Technical Services

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Patrick Tse

Singapore

Regional Security Sr. Manager, APAC

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Samantha Mancia

United States of America

Sr. Project Coordinator

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Benedetta Rossi

France

Policy Development Support Director (GAC)

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Camia Frank

United States of America

Operations Specialist III

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Anthony Bruneio

United States of America

Senior End User Support 1

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Betsy Andrews

United States of America

Online Learning Sr. Program Manager

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Aisha Herrell

United States of America

Global Support Analyst III

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Alperen Eken

Policy Development Support Sr Analyst

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Fahd Batayneh

Jordan

Stakeholder Engagement Director- Middle East

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Carlos Reyes

United States of America

Sr. Policy Director, Community Operations and Programs

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Anna Guseva

United States of America

Sr. Director Program Management- E&IT

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Champika Wijayatunga

Regional Technical Engagement Sr. Manager

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Danielle Gordon

United States of America

GDD Services Senior Manager

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Fernanda Iunes

United States of America

Capacity Development Program Manager I

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Catherine Maleki

United States of America

Sr. Counsel

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David Dong

United States of America

IANA Services Sr. Specialist

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Carlos Hernandez Ganan

Netherlands

Principal Security, Stability & Resiliency Specialist

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."