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One of his companies, [[ICB]] located in UK and Tokyo provides Registry services to 14 TLDs both directly and other TLDs as back-end technical contractor. In addition [[ICB]] owns and operates its own DNS infrastructure on 4 continents around the world, receiving around 12 billion queries per day providing 24x7x365 support.
 
One of his companies, [[ICB]] located in UK and Tokyo provides Registry services to 14 TLDs both directly and other TLDs as back-end technical contractor. In addition [[ICB]] owns and operates its own DNS infrastructure on 4 continents around the world, receiving around 12 billion queries per day providing 24x7x365 support.
  
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Paul is currently Chairman of the Board of Directors of [[CENTR.org]]. Paul was founder and CEO of REACTO.com, the world’s largest stand-alone provider of “gTLD Registrar in a box” platforms for ICANN Accredited Registrars.  REACTO was sold in 2002.  He was involved in the creation of ICANN in 1997 and served on the gTLD Policy Body (Name Council) for a number of years.
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He was Appointed as interim Names Council Representative to the Registries Constituency in November, 1999, then elected to the DNSO - Names Council as a representative of the Registrars Constituency in March 2000.
  
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Paul is a Special Adviser to a number of Governments and United Nations Agencies for issues relating to E Commerce and the Internet.
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Paul has also been the chair of Intake Committee, the chair of the WHOIS Committee and a member, International Domain Names Task Force.  
  
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He was Appointed as interim Names Council Representative to the Registries Constituency in November, 1999, then elected to the DNSO - Names Council as a representative of the Registrars Constituency in March 2000.
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Paul is currently Chairman of the Board of Directors of [[CENTR.org]]. Paul was founder and CEO of REACTO.com, the world’s largest stand-alone provider of “gTLD Registrar in a box” platforms for ICANN Accredited Registrars.  REACTO was sold in 2002.  He was involved in the creation of ICANN in 1997 and served on the gTLD Policy Body (Name Council) for a number of years.
  
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Paul has also been the chair of Intake Committee, the chair of the WHOIS Committee and a member, International Domain Names Task Force. Since 1992 he has been frequent presenter and speaker on Internet issues at Internet Summits, WIPO, UNCTAD, WTO and the Group of 8 Industrialised Nations Meetings.<ref>[http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/icann-nominations/Arc01/msg00011.html [icann-nominations] Paul M. Kane's Acceptance Statement......]</ref>
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Paul is a Special Adviser to a number of Governments and United Nations Agencies for issues relating to E Commerce and the Internet. Since 1992 he has been frequent presenter and speaker on Internet issues at Internet Summits, WIPO, UNCTAD, WTO and the Group of 8 Industrialised Nations Meetings.<ref>[http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/icann-nominations/Arc01/msg00011.html [icann-nominations] Paul M. Kane's Acceptance Statement......]</ref>
  
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Paul KanePortrait.jpg
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Country: USA
Email: Paul.Kane@nic.ac

Paul M Kane is an experienced CEO and Chairman of Kane group of companies. In 2010 Paul Kane was selected by ICANN as one of 7 TCRs (Trusted Community Representative) who are responsible for safe-guarding a share of the ROOT Zone's DNSSEC Recovery Key.[1] [2]

He has been involved in the software development/Internet industry since 1984. Paul’s group of companies currently employ 114 staff in offices based in UK, Japan, US and satellite offices in Oman and Dubai.

One of his companies, ICB located in UK and Tokyo provides Registry services to 14 TLDs both directly and other TLDs as back-end technical contractor. In addition ICB owns and operates its own DNS infrastructure on 4 continents around the world, receiving around 12 billion queries per day providing 24x7x365 support.

ICANN Involvement

He was Appointed as interim Names Council Representative to the Registries Constituency in November, 1999, then elected to the DNSO - Names Council as a representative of the Registrars Constituency in March 2000.

Paul has also been the chair of Intake Committee, the chair of the WHOIS Committee and a member, International Domain Names Task Force.

Work

Paul is currently Chairman of the Board of Directors of CENTR.org. Paul was founder and CEO of REACTO.com, the world’s largest stand-alone provider of “gTLD Registrar in a box” platforms for ICANN Accredited Registrars. REACTO was sold in 2002. He was involved in the creation of ICANN in 1997 and served on the gTLD Policy Body (Name Council) for a number of years.

Paul is a Special Adviser to a number of Governments and United Nations Agencies for issues relating to E Commerce and the Internet. Since 1992 he has been frequent presenter and speaker on Internet issues at Internet Summits, WIPO, UNCTAD, WTO and the Group of 8 Industrialised Nations Meetings.[3]

Kane group

Personal Life

He is Married with two young children and they reside in Bournemouth, UK.

References

  1. ↑ Paul Kane Selected as One of Seven Security Key Holders
  2. ↑ Information about DNSSEC for the Root Zone
  3. ↑ [icann-nominations Paul M. Kane's Acceptance Statement......]
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