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[Brian Koontz <brian AT pongonova.net>]

Sure there is...and a decade's worth of precedence as well.  OpenNIC's
policy has been to not peer "colliders," and .free would certainly
fall into this category were ICANN to go forward with the TLD.

But you and I both know that OpenNIC would be tagged as "TLD pirates,"
regardless of prior art.  We would open ourselves individually to
civil liability should we choose to serve up what is "obviously" not
ours to serve. 

This is why we need to decide, as a group, if organizing OpenNIC into
a corporate/non-profit structure is timely.  As such, all OpenNIC
servers could be given the opportunity to operate under the OpenNIC
"umbrella," reducing personal liability concerns. 

  --Brian


On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 07:52:01PM +0000, Mike Nichols wrote:
> Is there no option for opennic dns servers to give priority to opennic's
> .free registered domains?
> 
> 
> On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 06:20:34 +0000, "Hanselka, Alex" <alex AT hanselka.name>
> wrote:
> > Ah how complicated. :)
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: discuss-bounces AT lists.opennicproject.org
> > [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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