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["Hanselka, Alex" <alex AT hanselka.name>]

Ah how complicated. :)

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[mailto:discuss-bounces AT lists.opennicproject.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Taylor
Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 11:22 PM
To: OpenNIC Discuss
Subject: [opennic-discuss] Conflict alert - dotFree

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.
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