Former Icann chairman Peter Dengate-Thrush has been appointed executive chair of Top Level Domain Holdings.
The company, which owns registry Minds + Machines, will operate new generic top-level domains (gTLDs), including .eco; .nyc; .radio; .roma; .bayern and .berlin.
Dengate-Thrush was chairman of Icann when the new gTLD program was approved in Singapore on June 20 and was replaced by former vice-chair Steve Crocker.