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[Jeff Taylor <shdwdrgn AT sourpuss.net>]

The .parody TLD has been in existence longer than I've been with OpenNic... It may have actually been part of the original structure. The reason I took over running the TLD was because there is value in the idea behind it that is not represented by ICANN -- It provides a structure to create parodies of existing products/ideas without there being any question that this is in fact a parody rather than an attempt to use a manufacturer's known advertising methods to trick consumers into buying product from you.  Under US law, making it obvious that you are a parody gives a person free reign to imitate and mock anything and anyone.

The TLD has a specific, but wide-ranging use, and the idea behind it provided a safe harbor for anyone that wanted to use it... Its just that there was never a lot of interest within this particular group.


On 12/28/2010 12:57 AM, Travis McCrea wrote:

I think that by having a too diversified TLD setup, we make our service
LESS user friendly. We should be expanding TLDs based on large desire,
not simply because someone "thinks it would be cool". Case and
Point .P2P it came out of a pre-defined need, and we know that after its
all up and going... there will be a large number of users.

.parody sites can be registered on .free since parodies are Fair Use (ie
"Free", or .geek as it seems to be a nice catch-all TLD)... so it's not
like there is no place for these websites. It just seems like a very
very niche community that doesn't really need a TLD. 

So if this came to vote, I would be in support of dropping .parody 

On Mon, 2010-12-27 at 23:46 -0700, Jeff Taylor wrote:
  

I just did an inventory of the domains listed under .parody.  About half 
the registered domains are blank - somebody registered them and never 
came back.  The rest of the domains are either incomplete (lacking any A 
records), or point to nameservers which no longer resolve that domain.

Final analysis - The only domain under .parody that actually points to 
something is opennic.parody.

I would like to put it up for discussion that this TLD is effectively 
dead and has no further use within the opennic project.  Since I know a 
lot of people are probably on break during the holidays, I will throw 
out a reminder on this discussion at the beginning of next week, and 
depending on the response, we will put it up for vote at a later time.
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