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[sjeap <sjeap AT lavabit.com>]

Hello Peter,

Sounds good! One would need a (some) particularly reliable sysadmin who
is also well established in the OpenNIC organization to offer such a
service permanently. I think, there has to be some kind of special
criteria to be on such a "list" representing OpenNIC here.

Regards sjeap

Am 11.11.2012 18:08, schrieb Peter Green:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> As far as I understand, if someone, say that is new to OpenNIC wants a new 
> TLD, apart from the democratic process of approval here, they also need to 
> setup and run a T1.
> 
> Now there may be many more people that would like to run a new TLD and have 
> the money to do it, but not the know how and possibly would only be 
> interested in administering the registration side of it. So should OpenNIC 
> offer a package, where by someone, anyone, with the desire and money can 
> employ the technical know how to achieve their goal?
> 
> This would still be way cheaper than I.C.A.N.N. after all, the application 
> would still work the same and still be free, it would only cost as much as 
> the server/s required and the wages of any sysadmins, thus creating 
> employment. It would also retain the values of OpenNIC.
> 
> Obviously this could happen anyway, if some employed a tech savy peron to 
> do the sysadmin side, but should OpenNIC help facilitate it?
> 
> I believe it would help us become more mainstream, and credible on the 
> world stage.
> 
> Just thinking out loud ;-)
> 
> Peter
>