Peter Dengate-Thrush (born 1956), aka "PDT", is a New Zealand

barrister A barrister is a type of lawyer in common law jurisdictions. Barristers mostly specialise in courtroom advocacy and litigation. Their tasks include taking cases in superior courts and tribunals, drafting legal pleadings, researching law and ...

specialising in Internet law. In November 2007 he was appointed Chairman of the Board of

ICANN The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN ) is an American multistakeholder group and nonprofit organization responsible for coordinating the maintenance and procedures of several databases related to the namespaces ...

, taking over the role from Vint Cerf. Dengate Thrush was made an

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Fellow at the

annual meeting in August 2008 in recognition of his contributions to Internet policy issues both in New Zealand and internationally. 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.

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Biography
at icann.org
Election of Peter Dengate Thrush as new Chairman of ICANNPeter Dengate Thrush Election Article
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