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Biography for Peter Dengate Thrush

First Name: Peter

Last Name: Dengate Thrush

Title: Chairman (5 NOV 07)

Organization: ICANN

Country: New Zealand

CV:

Peter Dengate Thrush is a barrister practicing in civil litigation and specializing in intellectual property, competition and Internet law.
He was the legal advisor to InternetNZ from 1996 to 1999, advising it on the formation of its registry company (Domainz) and acting in early domain name disputes in which the registry was named. He served as chair from December 1999 for two terms. He is a past chair of InternetNZ's International Affairs Committee, and a member of its Legal and Regulatory Committee (see www.internetnz.org.nz).
He has been active in the setting up and developing of APTLD, the body of national domain name registry managers for the Asia Pacific region, and is the immediate past chair (see www.aptld.org).
Peter has been involved in ICANN since its inception. As a member of the Boston Working Group, he provided comment in 1998 on the early drafts of the ICANN bylaws, and as President of AIPPI-NZ, he co-chaired one of the preformation meetings of the Intellectual Property Constituency in Wellington, New Zealand. In 1999 he was appointed to ICANN's Independent Review Advisory Committee, or IRAC, a multi-national panel of legal experts charged with defining the principles of independent review of the actions of the Board of ICANN. He contributed to InternetNZ's submission to WIPO 1 and served on ICANN's Working Group A, which led to the development of the UDRP. He is currently on the President’s Strategy, Board Finance, Board Governance and Executive committees.
He has been a leader of the ccTLD community, serving for many years on the Administrative Committee of the World Wide Alliance of ccTLDs. In that role he originated the call for the formation of a Support Organization for ccTLDs in ICANN and chaired the many meetings at which its bylaws were debated (see www.wwtld.org). He served on the launching group of the ccNSO and was selected as a board member after an international vote of ccTLD managers in the ccNSO in December 2004.
Peter Dengate Thrush was selected for the ICANN Board by the Country Code Names Supporting Organization in 2005. His three-year term expires six months after the conclusion of the 2007 annual meeting.
On 5 Nov 2007 Peter Dengate Thrush was elected Chairman of Icann

Misc: In June 2006 his wife, father and brother iwas killed n a car crash on the Hutt Valley Motorway. Liz Dengate Thrush, 53, Ronald Thrush, 79, Gavin Thrush, 46, and close family friend Heather Taylor, 69, were killed.

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First Reported Mar 10 2010 - Updated 21 hours ago - 10 Documents

Internet porn

The adult industry is up in arms over a renewed push for a '.xxx' domain name, which they fear would be the first step towards segregating porn sites into a 'ghetto'. Proponents believe the new .xxx domain would create an online red-light district where ... [Published 22 hours ago by WA Today.com.au]

Entities: ICANN, Pornography, Fiona Patten, Rod Beckstrom

First Reported Mar 11 2010 - Updated 3 hours ago - 4 Documents

Steve Crocker

ICANN boss creates a stir with DNS security warning

Country registries (ccNSO) also see no particular danger at present. In response to a commentary from US company NeuStar, ICANN director Steve Crocker stated that there had even been a slight fall in distributed denial of service attacks (dDoS). Kurtis ... [Published 3 hours ago by Heise Security]

Entities: ICANN, Steve Crocker, Denic, Contact Point, NeuStar Inc

First Reported Mar 10 2010 - Updated Mar 10 2010 - 2 Documents

Ars Technica

Backers Push .XXX Domain for Porn Sites

Ars Technica reports: The .xxx domain is back on the table. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will reconsider the top-level domain during a meeting in Kenya this week, nearly three years after it was shot down and nine years ... [Published Mar 10 2010 by Portfolio.com]

Entities: ICANN, Pornography, Family Research Council, Ars Technica, US Department of Commerce

First Reported Mar 11 2010 - Updated Mar 11 2010 - 1 Documents

ICANN

Bulk Transfer of DNGLOBE Do...

MARINA DEL REY, CA - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has authorized a bulk transfer of DNGLOBE LLC's gTLD domain names to Paknic (Private) Limited, due to a compliance action taken by ICANN that resulted in the de-accreditation ... [Published Mar 11 2010 by Intellectual Property News Agency]

Entities: ICANN, Promoter

First Reported Mar 10 2010 - Updated Mar 10 2010 - 1 Documents

Rod Beckstrom

News round-up: Beckstrom speaks; sucks site wins; and Icann report published

/p>UDRP panel challenges Octogen interpretation March 10, 2010EU court adviser urges limits to bio-patent protection March 09, 2010â€œwwwâ€ most common term in cybersquatted domains March 08, 2010This article is part of the beta trial for Managing ... [Published Mar 10 2010 by Managing IP]

Entities: ICANN, Rod Beckstrom, Search Engine Optimization, David Farber

First Reported Mar 11 2010 - Updated Mar 11 2010 - 1 Documents

Decision to be Taken for Domain Names Varying From .God to .xxx - sex and Religion

On Friday, the officials who decide on the availability of new web addresses will rethink about allowing .xxx. Though the suffix, which is aimed at adult websites, had been given consent formerly, the decision was taken back by the Internet Corporation ... [Published Mar 11 2010 by TopNews New Zealand]

Entities: ICANN, Organic, The Vatican, Islam

First Reported Mar 11 2010 - Updated Mar 11 2010 - 1 Documents

Peter Dengate Thrush

ICANN Forum moves to tackle issue of domain names

By Morris Aron and Ramadhan RajabCouncil members at the on-going ICANN conference in Nairobi Wednesday moved to reverse a long-standing policy that prohibits domain name registries from acting as domain name registrars.The members passed a charter that ... [Published Mar 11 2010 by East African Standard]

Entities: ICANN, Samuel Poghisio, Peter Dengate Thrush, Nairobi, Rod Beckstrom

First Reported Mar 10 2010 - Updated Mar 10 2010 - 1 Documents

ICANN Nairobi -- Day 5

Enom is reported to have obtained a trademark for the sequence of letters "b", "l", "o", "g". In that order. In what jurisdiction this absurdity has occurred I don't yet know but when any TLD operator receives a registration request for the domain *blog*.TLD, ... [Published Mar 10 2010 by Wampum]

Entities: Enom, ICANN, Nairobi

First Reported Mar 10 2010 - Updated Mar 10 2010 - 1 Documents

Icann to reconsider .xxx scheme

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) has confirmed that it will reconsider a plan to create an internet domain specifically for adult sites.In 2005, Icann had given the green light to the .xxx scheme but overturned its decision ... [Published Mar 10 2010 by Computeach]

Entities: ICANN, Independent Review, Nairobi, Kenya

First Reported Mar 10 2010 - Updated Mar 10 2010 - 1 Documents

Kenya: Web Summit Becomes Another Missed Chance

After a lot of security concerns and re-assurance from the local Internet community that Nairobi is safe enough for the 1000 plus guests expected to attend the 37th Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) meeting, things seem to have ... [Published Mar 10 2010 by AllAfrica.com]

Entities: ICANN, Kenya, Nairobi, Kenyatta International Conference Centre

First Reported Mar 10 2010 - Updated Mar 10 2010 - 1 Documents

ICANN urges Africa to break Internet Monopolies

ICANN, the group in charge of assigning online addresses has urged Africa to break internet monopolies to help lower the price of access since Africa is more prone to cyber crime.We get the facts from Rod Beckstrom, CEO of the Internet Corporation for ... [Published Mar 10 2010 by ABN Digital]

Entities: ICANN, Rod Beckstrom, Cybercrime

First Reported 19 hours ago - Updated 19 hours ago - 1 Documents

ICANN conference attendees offer African techies advice

Rebecca Wanjiku, Computerworld Kenya03.11.2010TagsComments 0Like the story? Get Alerts of big news events. Enter your email addressDailyWeeklyQualified 3rd PartiesKenya's technology businesspeople got a chance to interact with some of the organizations ... [Published 19 hours ago by Industry Standard]

Entities: ICANN, Wendy Seltzer, World Wide Web Consortium, Kenya, YouTube LLC

Blogs

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ICANN Focuses On Domain Expansions [Tech Daily Dose - Oct 26 2009] The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers' proposed expansion of top-level domains -- such as .biz, .info and .us -- as well as the group's introduction ...
ICANN Is Ready To Party [Tech Daily Dose - Sep 25 2009] The California-based entity that administers the world's Internet addresses has assured lawmakers it is committed to a "long-term, formal relationship" with the ...
ICANN changes: big deal or big trouble? [Tech Central - Times Online - WBLG - Oct 30 2009] ICANN is certainly very pleased with itself over the opening up of internet domains to users whose first language does not use Roman script. "The coming introduction ...
ICANN and the Internet become independent [FOLDEN eMarketing Blog - Oct 05 2009] The ICANN, one of the basic internet organization e.g. responsible for the administration of the domain name system, is becoming an independent institution. Up ...
ICANN gains independence from the U.S. [CNET News.com - Sep 30 2009] The organization that oversees domain names and IP addresses is now accountable to the Internet community worldwide. ...

Audio/Video

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ICANN urges Africa to break Internet Monopolies [ABN Digital - YouTube - Mar 10 2010]
The Communicators: Organizing Domain Names [CSPAN - YouTube - Jan 04 2010]
Fort Hood Probe [Fox News Channel - YouTube - Dec 08 2009]
Akin questions Fort Hood witnesses [Rep. Todd Akin - YouTube Channel - Jan 20 2010]
Thune asks questions regarding the Ft. Hood sho... [Senator John Thune - YouTube Channel - Jan 21 2010]