Peter Dengate Thrush

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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.{{cite news |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10473839|title=NZer appointed 'Chairman of cyberspace'

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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.{{cite web | title=Peter Dengate Thrush named InternetNZ Fellow | url=http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0808/S00012.htm | accessdate=25 August 2008}}

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.{{cite web |url=http://www.domainnamenews.com/new-gtlds/peter-dengate-thrush-switches-icann-tldh/9533|title='Peter Dengate Thrush Switches from ICANN to TLDH' |accessdate=1 November 2011 |author=|date= |work= |publisher=}}