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[Julian DeMarchi <julian AT jdcomputers.com.au>]

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On 06/14/2012 01:09 AM, Alex Hanselka wrote:
> As you will notice, FREE and ING are both in there. You will also
> notice the LIST IS HUGE.
> 
> Keep in mind these are only applicants and are not necessarily
> guaranteed to be approved or anything and you will also see that
> there are some TLDs such as FREE that many different
> people/companies applied for.

Now is a good of a time as any to talk about how OpenNIC will handle
this. As we all know the TLDs will not become active once approved for
roughly 2 years.

The way I think OpenNIC will handle these colliders is this. We as a
coummunity vote on each collider and decide if we are going to keep
the OpenNIC TLD or drop it in favour of ICANN ones.

This however will mean that ICANN will create a competing root. I'd
like to just repeat this statement, ICANN not OpenNIC will be creating
a competing root.

I'd also like to get the PR team within OpenNIC to write me a press
release for our website publicly critising ICANNs gTLD practice. Alex,
can you please gather your team and write me something? :)

I'd like to also take this oppurtunity to say I am very disappointed
in ICANNs action in regards to thier approach for new gTLDs. Once they
are active, the internet is not going to be the same as before. It's a
sad day for all. ICANN should be ashamed for turning DNS into a money
making machine. The application process alone have netted ICANN 348
million USD, thats alot! SHAME ICANN

- --julian
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