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Andee Hill

Staff

Sr. Director, GDD Accounts

United States of America

Biography

Andee Hill is a seasoned professional in the domain name industry, with a career spanning over two decades. She currently serves as the Senior Director of GDD Accounts at ICANN.

In her current capacity, Andee leads an international team that manages all gTLD (generic Top-Level Domain) registry operators, ICANN-accredited registrars, Registry Service Providers, and UDRP/URS providers, ensuring smooth operations and strategic oversight of the domain name system.

Andee's journey in the domain name industry began in 1999 when she became one of the first employees at Escrow.com, a premier domain name escrow company that was founded that same year. She played an integral role in Escrow.com’s growth, holding multiple positions and contributing to its development into a leading platform for secure online transactions.

After years of success at Escrow.com, Andee transitioned to a new entrepreneurial venture in 2013. She founded Escrowhill.com, an online escrow company, which she developed and later sold, marking a significant milestone in her career.

In addition to her entrepreneurial ventures, Andee brought her expertise to Donuts, the largest new gTLD registry, now known as Identity Digital, where she served as Business Development Director. Her experience at Donuts further solidified her reputation as a key figure in the domain name industry.

Andee holds a Bachelor’s degree in Education from National University, and her background in education complements her ability to manage teams and develop strategic initiatives within the fast-paced domain name sector. With her extensive experience and leadership in both the private and public sectors of the domain name industry, Andee continues to be a driving force in shaping the future of the digital landscape.

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."