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[Alex Hanselka <alex AT hanselka.name>]

Be sure you have a working registration and T1 before we vote. This may 
seem silly, but we need to have TLDs ready to go and ready for 
registration immediately when they are voted in, I think :)

On 2012-04-02 22:30, Travis McCrea wrote:
> :) Considering Rick Falkvinge is being considered for the Times top
> 100 list (and is in the top 200 list) -- I would say there was at
> least a little genius.
>
> I really want to push this to vote, but obviously want to get as much
> feedback on this before doing that. Is there anyone else who has any
> comment on the dotPirate TLD as it has been proposed?
>
> On 2012-04-02, at 10:32 AM, Richard Lyons wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 01:08:20 -0700, Travis McCrea wrote:
> >
> > > Pirate in modern culture (at least how I, and many others define 
> > > it)
> > > is someone who is in a counter culture. People who support things 
> > > that
> > > haven't been adopted by the mainstream yet. Pirate Radio, Pirate
> > > Party, Pirating Media, etc. If you would go to http://dotpirate.me 
> > > we
> > > lay out exactly what "pirate" means to us as defining a support of 
> > > the
> > > pirate ideology as set out by Rick Falkvinge. To get an idea of the
> > > Pirate Ideology check out
> > >
> > > http://falkvinge.net/2011/11/26/the-pirate-wheel-revisited-as-broad-ideology/
> >
> > I am always unsure whether the use of the word "pirate" for this 
> > rather
> > wonderful movement was a mistake (because of strong negative
> > associations in english) or a stroke of genius (hijacking the phrase 
> > used
> > by big business and antediluvian governments attemping to restrict 
> > our
> > freedoms still further, and making it our own).  Either way, and 
> > even if
> > I were not sympathetic to the pirate movement, I see no objection to 
> > the
> > tld.  On the contrary.
> >
> > richard