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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Sr. Manager, Projects and Programs

United States of America

Associate Project Manager

United States of America

Sr. Social Media Specialist

Germany

Policy Support Director

Jonathan Phillips

United States of America

Sr. Operations Coordinator

United States of America

New gTLD Program Senior Manager

United States of America

Regional Security Manager, North America (West) & Central America

United States of America

GDD Services Senior Manager

United States of America

Legal Operations Program Manager

United States of America

Project Manager II

United States of America

VP, Creative Services

Leticia Castillo-Sojo

United States of America

VP, Contractual Compliance

United States of America

Director, Strategic Initiatives

Madeleine Werbelow

United States of America

Grant Program Senior Coordinator

Margaret Benavides

United States of America

Planning Sr. Manager

United States of America

Manager, Editorial

Türkiye, Republic of

GDD Programs Senior Director

Türkiye, Republic of

Policy Development Support Manager

United States of America

Contractual Compliance Senior Specialist

Sabrina Tanamal

United States of America

Sr. Manager, IANA Operations

Türkiye, Republic of

Senior Travel Services Planner

Samaneh Tajalizadehkhoob

Netherlands

Senior Director, Security, Stability and Resiliency Research

Selina Harrington

United States of America

Sr. Manager, IANA Operations

Türkiye, Republic of

Sr. Event Planner

Siranush Vardanyan

United States of America

Fellowship Senior Program Manager

Singapore

Contractual Compliance Specialist

United States of America

Senior Director, Event Design and Production

United States of America

Operations Sr. Specialist

United States of America

OCTO Compliance Senior Director

United States of America

Director, BOA

United States of America

Vendor Management Manager

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."