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Peter Dengate Thrush is a barrister specializing in internet law, intellectual property and competition. He is the current Chairman of the Board of Directors of ICANN, a positon he has held since November, 2007. He was most recently re-elected following the ICANN Annual General Meeting in December, 2010. Thrush also currently sits on the ICANN President's Strategy, Board Finance, Board Governance and Executive committees. During his tenure, Thrush has overseen one of the most important changes to the Internet and TLDs by beginning the process of allowing domains to be registered using non latin characters. He has also chaired the Board as they debate the mode for introducing new gTLDs, the .xxx debate, and celebrated ICANN's 10th anniversary....read more

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Key-Systems is an ISP and hosting company. It was founded in 1998 by Alexander Siffrin and received it's accreditation from ICANN as an official registrar in October, 2000. The German company has subsidiaries in the USA and Mexico and provides services to its end-customers and resellers through its three domain portals: RRPproxy.net, BrandShelter.com, and DomainDiscount24.com. As of May, 2011, Key-Systems has over 3,2 million gTLD & ccTLD domains under its management. There are another 1 million domain names registered by companies of the Key-Systems Group. The company is currently ranked second among leading registrars for global TLDs in Europe, and is the 12th largest ICANN registrar worldwide. They currently offer the fully-automated registration of more than 280 top-level and second-level domains....read more

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-'''Peter Dengate Thrush''' is a barrister specializing in internet law, intellectual property and competition. He is  the current Chairman of the Board of Directors of [[ICANN]], a positon he has held since November, 2007. He was most recently re-elected following the [[ICANN]] Annual General Meeting in December, 2010.<ref>[http://www.icann.org/en/biog/thrush.htm Official ICANN Biography for Peter Dengate Thrush]</ref> Thrush also currently sits on the [[ICANN]] President's Strategy, Board Finance, Board Governance and Executive committees. During his tenure, Thrush has overseen one of the most important changes to the Internet and TLDs by beginning the process of allowing domains to be registered using non latin characters.<ref>[http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Technology/Internet-Addresses-Using-Non-Latin-Characters-Are-Approved/Article/200910415425926 Sky News]</ref> He has also chaired the Board as they debate the mode for introducing new gTLDs, the [[.xxx]] debate, and celebrated ICANN's 10th anniversary.<ref>[http://blog.logicboxes.com/tag/peter-dengate-thrush/ Blog.LogicBoxes.com]</ref>...[[Peter Dengate Thrush|read more]]
+'''Peter Dengate Thrush''' is a barrister specializing in internet law, intellectual property and competition. He is  the current Chairman of the Board of Directors of [[ICANN]], a positon he has held since November, 2007. He was most recently re-elected following the [[ICANN]] Annual General Meeting in December, 2010. Thrush also currently sits on the [[ICANN]] President's Strategy, Board Finance, Board Governance and Executive committees. During his tenure, Thrush has overseen one of the most important changes to the Internet and TLDs by beginning the process of allowing domains to be registered using non latin characters. He has also chaired the Board as they debate the mode for introducing new gTLDs, the [[.xxx]] debate, and celebrated ICANN's 10th anniversary....[[Peter Dengate Thrush|read more]]
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