Launching the Cyrillic IDN TLD as the first Internationalized Domain Name in the World

Presented at HOPE 2020 Virtual Rescheduled, July 28, 2020, 7 p.m. (60 minutes).

This talk will cover the birth of the Russian domain space (.RU), its evolution, and how it addressed challenges such as creating/managing non-Latin international domain names (IDN) starting with the first Cyrillic domain (a pioneering ICANN program) and de-monopolization of the Russian domain business while educating government officials.

Presenters:

• Dr. Yulia Ovchinnikova
  **Dr. Yulia Ovchinnikova** was elected as a council member of the Coordination Center of Top Level Domain Russia (cctld.ru) in 2008. She was the first woman elected to the council. Since then, she moved to the United States and founded Open Hub (openhubproject.com), an open ecosystem and resource center for the tech workforce and tech business in the Hudson Valley. Open Hub is building the local tech community, consulting tech startups and companies, matching business idea generators with developers, teaching coding and organizing education workshops, and is the founder of the Hudson Valley's first tech festival: HV Techfest (hvtechfest.com).<br>

Links:

• https://xiii.hope.net/hope2020/talk/DUC9YA/
• https://infocon.org/cons/2600/HOPE 2020 (2020)/HOPE 2020 - Launching the Cyrillic IDN TLD.mp4
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwO8GxjUK-A

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• DEF CON 21 (2013) / So You Think Your Domain Controller is Secure?
• Kiwicon V: It Goes b00m (2011) / Say my name, bitch! (IDN Homograph Mitigation Strategies)
• BalCCon2k22 - Loading (2022) / Internationalized Domain Names… and its possible bad uses