Paul Kane (entrepreneur)

Paul Kane is chief executive of the British technology firm CommunityDNS^[1] and from 2010 to 2017 was one of seven people entrusted with a credit card-like key to restart portions of the World Wide Web or internet which are secured with DNSSEC, after a catastrophic event such as a major security breach or terrorist attack.^[1][2] If such a situation arises, five keyholders will travel to the United States to meet up and restart the DNSSEC system.^[3]

Kane runs ICB, registrars for the controversial .io ccTLD.^[4]