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He is currently a board member of [[AboutUs.org]].<ref>[http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=3682337&authType=name&authToken=DKGa&pvs=pp&trk=ppro_viewmore LinkedIn]</ref>

He is currently a board member of [[AboutUs.org]].<ref>[http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=3682337&authType=name&authToken=DKGa&pvs=pp&trk=ppro_viewmore LinkedIn]</ref>

===ICANN & Industry Involvement===

==ICANN & Industry Involvement==

Paul Stahura is a member of the [[ICANN]] [[Whois Task Force]]. He was elected to serve on the [[NomCom|ICANN Nomination Committee]] by the [[Registrar Constituency]] in November, 2006.

Paul Stahura is a member of the [[ICANN]] [[Whois Task Force]]. He was elected to serve on the [[NomCom|ICANN Nomination Committee]] by the [[Registrar Constituency]] in November, 2006.

At [[ICANN Lisbon]] he suggested an intriguing solution regarding the accessibility of [[Whois]] information. That is, to encrypt more sensitive Whois data and only allow certain legal entities to access that through use of a specific key, the most basic of information would still be available to the general public.<ref>[http://blog.domaintools.com/2007/05/paul-stahura-of-demand-media/ Domain Tools Blog Post on Stahura]</ref>

At [[ICANN Lisbon]] he suggested an intriguing solution regarding the accessibility of [[Whois]] information. That is, to encrypt more sensitive Whois data and only allow certain legal entities to access that through use of a specific key, the most basic of information would still be available to the general public.<ref>[http://blog.domaintools.com/2007/05/paul-stahura-of-demand-media/ Domain Tools Blog Post on Stahura]</ref>

In a letter dated December 8th, Stahura, along with twenty-seven other domain name industry participants, wrote to Sen. Jay Rockefeller and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison to support [[ICANN]]'s new [[gTLD]] program, in response to the [[ICANN#New_gTLD_Senate_and_House_of_Representatives_Hearings|Senate Hearings]] taking place on the same day. They supported ICANN's argument that the program would be innovative and economically beneficial, and that the program had taken lots of people a long time to develop, hence it had not been rushed.<ref>[http://domainincite.com/new-gtld-industry-pleads-with-senators/ New gTLD industry pleads with senators, domainincite.com]</ref> Read the letter [http://domainincite.com/docs/Senate-Letter-ICANN-Expansion-of-Top-Level-Domains-08.DEC.2011.pdf here].

In a letter dated December 8th, 2011, Paul Stahura, along with twenty-seven other domain name industry representatives, wrote to Sen. Jay Rockefeller and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison to support [[ICANN]]'s new gTLD program, in response to the [[ICANN#New_gTLD_Senate_and_House_of_Representatives_Hearings|Senate Hearings]] taking place on the same day. They supported ICANN's argument that the program would be innovative and economically beneficial, and noted that the program took a diverse group of international stakeholders years to develop.<ref>[http://domainincite.com/new-gtld-industry-pleads-with-senators/ New gTLD industry pleads with senators, domainincite.com]</ref> The  letter can be found [http://domainincite.com/docs/Senate-Letter-ICANN-Expansion-of-Top-Level-Domains-08.DEC.2011.pdf here].

==Background==

==Background==