ICANN Elects Peter Dengate-Thrush as New Chairman

An anonymous reader writes "Peter Dengate-Thrush, a New Zealand lawyer, has been elected unanimously as the new Chairman of the Board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. "I am delighted that my colleagues have placed their confidence in me for this challenging and important role," Dengate Thrush said. Peter practices civil litigation, specializing in intellectual property, competition, and Internet law. He 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 he co-chaired one of the pre-formation meetings of the Intellectual Property Constituency in Wellington, New Zealand."

Comments

Obligatory Man from U.N.C.L.E. reference

[Eudial]

I expect Illya and Napoleon to already be on their way to foil T.H.R.U.S.H's evil plans to infiltrate I.C.A.N.N, no doubt to build some sort of massive death ray to blow up buildings from across the planet.

First decent icann chairman, ever

[rs79]

I know Peter pretty well. He one of the few sane people in the DNS mess and it's nice to see him replace the string of crazies that came before him.

Not that the chairman can do a whole lot with the pack of sharks that make up the rest of icann mind you.

Peter is a scream in real life, you'd never know he's a lawyer. I'd pay big money to see him and Berryhill on stage debating almost anything.

Now lets see if he can actually herald the creation of some new tlds.