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[Richard Lyons <richard AT the-place.net>]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 16:07:32 -0400, Jon Hebb wrote:

> I know this may not be received well, but possibly an idea would be to
> migrate this and future gTLD's to something like .ing.alt or .ing-alt

Just a thought:  What if we had a policy to always accept .abc- as well
as .abc for any OpenNIC tld?  It is very unlikely the .xyz- version
would be adopted under ICANN.  It is identifiable and adds only one
character.  And in the event of a future conflict caused by ICANN
stealing a tld, we could resolve the - version in perpetuity.
Gradually, people could migrate to it being the preferred version and
ultimately perhaps drop the .pqr type.

You could argue for .-foo or .-wow- instead.  We would have to choose a
single standard.

It would have the secondary advantage of being a little PR tool in its
own right.  In time, you might imagine even adopting it into a graphic
identity "open.-nic-" or, neater ".open-", or whatever.

I'm no expert, but the hyphen is the only non alpanumeric character which
conforms to RFC 3696, and though RFC1035 preferred name syntax does not
like the hyphen to appear at the end, I assume it would be accepted by
most or all programs that handle domain names.  I am sure someone here
knows why this would not work.

richard