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[Jeff Taylor <shdwdrgn AT sourpuss.net>]

JStoker mentioned in the chat channel today that there is a group online 
at http://www.dotfree.com who is attempting to register the .free TLD 
with ICANN.  As far as I can tell, it looks like a legitimate company 
which is actually going through with registration, although apparently 
they have already been caught blatantly plagiarizing another website for 
their content, and there is a lot of speculation that their domains will 
not be quite as 'free' as they advertise.

Regardless, while there is no guarantee that this company will actually 
come through with their plan, their website is in fact pre-registering 
domain names beginning November 1st.  Unfortunately, ICANN does not care 
to listen to groups like OpenNic because we do not pay them hundreds of 
thousands of dollars each year.  *IF* this new TLD does go live, we need 
to make plans to migrate the OpenNic .free domains to a new TLD.