Peter Dengate Thrush

Peter Dengate Thrush

Peter Dengate-Thrush (born 1956), aka "PDT", is a New Zealand barrister specialising in Internet law. In November 2007 he was appointed Chairman of the Board of ICANN, taking over the role from Vint Cerf.[1]

Dengate Thrush was made an InternetNZ Fellow at the InternetNZ annual meeting on 2008-08-04 in recognition of his contributions to Internet policy issues both in New Zealand and internationally.[2]

After his Term at ICANN ended in June 2011, Dengate Thrush switched to TLDh Top Level Domain Holdings, the parent company of Minds+Machines, where he was appointed Executive Chairman.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "NZer appointed 'Chairman of cyberspace'". NZ Herald. 2007-11-03. Retrieved 2007-11-03.
  2. ↑ "Peter Dengate Thrush named InternetNZ Fellow". Retrieved 2008-08-25.
  3. ↑ "'Peter Dengate Thrush Switches from ICANN to TLDH'". Retrieved 2011-11-01.
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