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Gino Marliani

Staff

SVP, Global Human Resources

United States of America

Biography

Gino Marliani, Senior Vice President of Global Human Resources, is a seasoned executive with more than two decades of experience leading people, culture, and organizational strategy across multinational, high-growth, and creative organizations. Known for guiding complex organizational transformations and partnering closely with executive leadership, he has shaped talent, culture, and organizational effectiveness programs for influential companies in music, media entertainment, digital content, hospitality, retail, and education.

Prior to joining ICANN, Gino served as Vice President, Human Resources – People Business Partners at Universal Music Group (UMG), where he was a strategic advisor to executive leadership and a variety of global business units. He led organizational design and change management for UMG’s global operating model, drove enterprise talent and workforce strategies, and guided HR strategy across major business transformations. His work included full HR merger and acquisition lifecycle leadership, organizational effectiveness initiatives, and cross-functional planning for UMG’s Future of Work.

Gino also served as Chief People Officer at Fuse Media, where he built and transformed the company’s people and culture function. He designed and implemented the organization’s vision, mission, and values; led culture, diversity, and engagement initiatives; restructured the organization to align with commercial priorities; and modernized talent acquisition and people programs to strengthen transparency, collaboration, and creativity.

Earlier in his career at Discovery Communications, Gino held multiple senior HR leadership roles across global networks, studios, corporate services, production, operations, and revenue organizations.

He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology with an emphasis in Industrial/Organizational Psychology and serves as a Board Director for the Content & Connectivity Human Resources Association.

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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."