Tina Dam has been one of the most influential staffers at ICANN. In her role as Senior Director of IDNs, she was largely responsible for the progress achieved with the registration of multilingual urls — particularly by spearheading the fast track IDN ccTLD program, and calling for the internationalization of gTLDs such as .COM as [...]

Tina Dam, the Senior Director of IDNs at ICANN was featured in a CNN segment on IDNs entitled “Internet Shake-Up.” Among the highlights of the piece was the question of how English speakers in the U.S. can easily access websites in other scripts, such as Arabic. Tina responded with a question that goes to the [...]