About Peter Dengate Thrush
Born 1956. Peter Dengate Thrush is a New Zealand lawyer.
Peter Dengate Thrush (born 1956), also known as 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.
Dengate Thrush was made an InternetNZ Fellow at the InternetNZ 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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Peter Dengate Thrush was born in 1956.
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