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Theresa Swinehart

SVP, Global Domains and Strategy, Co-Deputy to the President and CEO

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Adam Szatyina

Procurement Manager

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Samaneh Tajalizadehkhoob

Netherlands

Director, Security, Stability and Resiliency Research

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Mike Takahashi

United States of America

Web Content Strategy Director

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Michelle Takamoto

United States of America

Global Senior Human Resources Business Partner

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Flauribert Takwa

United States of America

IT PMO Associate Project Manager

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Bryan Tan

Singapore

Contractual Compliance Senior Specialist

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Yien Chyn Tan

Singapore

Stakeholder Engagement Manager - APAC

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Sabrina Tanamal

United States of America

IANA Services Lead Specialist

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Aysegul Tekce

Türkiye, Republic of

GDD Accounts Senior Manager

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Liana Teo

Singapore

Head of Communications, APAC

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Gulten Tepe

Türkiye, Republic of

Policy Operations Analyst (GAC)

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Cynthia Tinsley

United States of America

Executive Assistant

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Danniel To

United States of America

Global Support Analyst I

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David Tobias

United States of America

Assistant Manager, Communications

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Joanna Toh

United States of America

Contractual Compliance Analyst

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Liz Torres

United States of America

HR Specialist

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Alexey Trepykhalin

United States of America

Government and IGO Engagement Manager

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Patrick Tse

Singapore

Regional Security Manager, APAC

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Caitlin Tubergen

United States of America

Policy Development Support Director (GNSO)

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Patrick Tudor

United States of America

VP, Global Stakeholder Engagement

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Heidi Ullrich

United States of America

VP, Policy Development and At-Large Relations

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Siranush Vardanyan

Armenia

Fellowship Program Manager

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Victor Figueroa Vazquez

United States of America

Technical Services Senior Manager

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Maria Vilardo

Senior Language Expert - Head Interpreter

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Brian Villaroman

United States of America

Contractual Compliance Analyst

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Jessica Villasenor

United States of America

Research & Strategy Manager

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Gina Villavicencio

United States of America

SVP, Global Human Resources

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Silvia Vivanco

Peru

Policy Development Support Senior Manager (At Large Regional Affairs)

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Savenaca Vocea

Australia

VP, Stakeholder Engagement - Oceania

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Nitin Wali

India

Stakeholder Engagement Senior Director, South Asia

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Delina Watson

United States of America

Sr. Project Coordinator

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Kirsten Wattson

United States of America

Financial Planning & Analysis, Senior Manager

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Amanda Weddle

United States of America

Contractual Compliance Analyst

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Russell Weinstein

United States of America

VP, GDD Accounts and Services

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Christian Wheeler

United States of America

Global Support Analyst II

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Champika Wijayatunga

Regional Technical Engagement Manager - APAC

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Michelle Wilson

United States of America

GDD Services Manager

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Josephine Perez Wolfer

United States of America

Legal Compliance Program Manager

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Mary Wong

United States of America

Vice President, Strategic Policy Management

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Alfonso Wongvalle

United States of America

Sr. Product Manager 2

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Victoria Yang

United States of America

Planning Senior Manager

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Holida Yanik

Türkiye, Republic of

Contractual Compliance Senior Specialist

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Tammy Yeow

Manager, Global Support

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Hui Ying

Singapore

Contractual Compliance Specialist

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Yuko Yokoyama

United States of America

Program Director

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Sarah Zagha

United States of America

Counsel

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."