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Anyone who wants to register a domain at http://dotpirate.org should be able to by the end of tonight. It wont be a live domain, and I can't promise stability... but if alpha release is what you want then that is what you can have. Also domains that are mirrors of the ICANN top 10,000 will be removed unless the person who registers it emails me directly (domains like thepiratebay or kickass), also I believe 2 letter domains are disabled but if they are not 2 letter country codes fall under the same restriction as they are reserved for Pirate Parties.

I am aware that the .pirate zone has been down for a long time, but we are not discussing the time that it was down before... work in restoring .pirate started a couple months ago. We bounced between different services trying to find one that was going to work for us. 

As far as hype, of course, that's why I wont make an announcement nor do I want to advertise our half working website... Getting hype is how we get the possibility of reaching critical mass. If people are not using .pirate domains or people are not using OpenNIC then it's not helping anyone.

Travis McCrea
http://www.travismccrea.com
USA: 1(206) 552-8728 / CAN: 1(778) 709-4859

 
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On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 5:00 PM, Quinn Wood <wood.quinn.s AT gmail.com> wrote:

On Saturday, April 5, 2014, teamcoltra AT gmail.com <teamcoltra AT gmail.com> wrote:

I wont rush an unfinished project, just because someone thinks that an entire platform can be built in a month.

The next time you use this "I don't want to rush" justification, I'm proposing the transfer on principle. Grow a pair and deploy or hand over the reins to someone who will. No one is going to be impressed by how perfect whatever you deploy is. They'll be too sick of your empty promises and placating deadlines.

In addition to those, there are serious security concerns I have with any domain that is currently running on the gallium system.

Then start accepting manual registrations. Clearly you have the staffing and text editors necessary.

The only thing that would happen if we switched the management of the domain to someone else right now is it would take them another month at least to launch the service, or they would use the system I have been developing with Jeff,

This system is much newer than your zone's outages. As in about half a year newer.

 

Instead of working against us, perhaps Peter, you would like to serve on the committee which works on and develops .pirate? 

Or he could start going through emailed registration requests. Which would not be good enough because then there wouldn't be any "We're back!" hype later down the road. You're not interested in making it work well, you're interested in making it newsworthy. Function be damned.

Opinions above are those of the Quinn Wood Brain Cooperative, and do not necessarily reflect the views of OpenNIC or its members.

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