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[Alex Hanselka <alex AT opennicproject.org>]

As of now, we have no overarching "OpenNIC" Policy on such things and leave it to the TLD creators to come up with their own policy.  Personally, I agree with what you have proposed.  After 3 months, if you have no DNS records, you are probably a spammer :)

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Alex Hanselka

alex AT opennicproject.org

On May 30, 2012, at 3:55 PM, Jamyn Shanley wrote:

After finding that the first few .ing domains I wanted were taken, I
decided to run a quick test. I retrieved the 1000 most common english
words from a random site (example:
http://www.insightin.com/esl/1000.php). Then, I queried the
register.ing page for each word. Finally, after finding which domains
were taken, I looked up each of those to see if they resolved.

163/1000 domains were taken from that list.
0/163 had a dns record; they didn't resolve at all.

My authoritative DNS server for this test was: 216.167.252.195.

This of course is not a comprehensive test, as most people will
register partial words to play on the 'ing' domain. However, I think
it illustrates the issue. It seems like domains that have no DNS
records should expire reasonably quickly (90 days?) to allow for use
by someone who will actually do something with them. I have not
checked the other registrars yet, but in order to stay relevant (and
prevent reservation of domains that are never used), there should be
some expiration policy in place.


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