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[Travis McCrea <teamcoltra AT gmail.com>]

I do want to point out that there is a major difference between
"tweaking" / "enhancing" and "reinventing". This is not "changing the
way we use OpenNIC" so its not "reinventing" its creating a small
enhancement to better the community.

Now you say "Better the Community? That's silly you are REMOVING stuff."

However, look at the success of web forums -- When they have too many
forum categories to post in, while there still isn't that many people,
they almost always die. I am not saying that by having dotParody that it
may kill OpenNIC but I am saying that its better to have a smaller
number of TLDs as to not overwhelm people.

You have stated that there must have been some group that thought this
was a good idea. If you remember in IRC, I started up the topic that we
should create dotWTF and all the fun websites we could create with the
TLD. Then a few others started liking the idea too. lol just because its
a fun idea to THINK about, doesn't mean its a good idea in practice. It
seems like the .jobs domain name in ICANN -- sure in theory its great --
but in practice, when was the last time you had a potential employer
send you to a .jobs domain name?

I am just thinking what if only 2-3 people register domains on .parody
even after we grow more. Why would we dedicate resources which could be
used to create a more stable infrastructure to a domain that very few
people are actually going to take advantage of?

I know there is a number of you within the group that is resistant to
change. I agree that change, for the sake of change, is not positive.
However, change, when done for the sake of progress.... should always be
considered.

Clearly there is a large enough number of you who support
keeping .parody, and its not like I am AGAINST having it. I am just
thinking that we could use resources better elsewhere. However, if you
are only against the removal, because you don't like change... well then
that is a bad reason to be against it. There are a few decent reasons to
be against the removal of the TLD but "whaaaa OpenNIC might have things
done differently than what we did when I started with this project 5
years ago" isn't an acceptable response. it's the same thing with the
logo... our current logo is old and ugly. You guys are engineers, you
have to think about non-engineer people coming into this project and
wanting to take part. I am not suggesting enhancements for the old guys
here, you would be happy with a clipart logo. I am suggesting
enhancements which will make the experience more pleasing for new
people. 

</rant> :P

On Tue, 2010-12-28 at 08:56 -0600, Brian Koontz wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 10:57:25PM -0900, Travis McCrea wrote:
> > .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. 
> 
> Keep in mind that the membership, at one point, voted this TLD
> in...so *somebody* (most likely more than one person) saw value in
> this TLD.
> 
> Sort of like introducing a new logo to replace an existing logo...is
> it really necessary?
> 
> We can tweak on OpenNIC ad infinitum...as new people come in, new
> ideas are brought into the fold, and what was of value to some is now
> of no value to others.
> 
> I caution everyone against this idea that OpenNIC is constantly in
> need of reinventing itself.  There is value in continuity.  
> 
>   --Brian
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