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I find the personal animosity displayed from Peter to be almost creepy. There was never constructive dialog, just attacks and bickering... none of which let's us actually grow and develop our community and rather creates friction and divides us, which is the last thing we need. I had offered Peter Green to join the dotPirate project and help grow it, something he refused to take part in. 

Even though Peter had some thing against me (personal feelings bleeding through, even in his final post), I had no problem with him nor do I have a personal issue with anyone in this community. I am sorry to see anyone go, especially someone so active and involved with the building of our alt.Root. 

This issue, however, is a reminder to us all why it's important that an organization builds and owns as much infrastructure as possible on it's own. I was talking about this last night on #OpenNIC, that we should not accept hosting donations from people (people running their own T1/T2s are fine, of course). When one person's service becomes powerful enough, then they hold the power to say "do this or I will no longer offer this service".

While decentralization is at the core of our group, keeping a few choice technologies and systems centralized will be best for the long term survival of our project. 

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On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 12:16 AM, subhuman <discipline AT gmx.net> wrote:

On Sun, 06 Apr 2014 23:29:46 +0100
Peter Green <peter AT greenpete.free> wrote:
>
> It seems to me so few want to run active websites within this
> network. So OpenNIC basically boils down to an open, alternative D.N.S.
> resolver (which is now struggling under the weight of D.O.S. attacks)
> and an alternative root that does nothing but create (effectively) empty
> T.L.D.s. It seems it's merely a platform for people to play at being
> coders and administrators.
>

Of course I can only speak for myself, but as far as I'm concerned your impression is wrong. I own two .null domains and would very much like to see them alive. However, this seems to be impossible. The only webhoster I know of who accepts OpenNIC namestuff, 000webhost.com, has a very rigid traffic policy, and when they come to the conclusion that a domain is inactive they shut it down - which they do after just one week. Unfortunately they are kind enough to remove every content as well. Which means that I may be "allowed" to activate my domains, but just one week later they kick me back to square one. Hence they are simply useless for me. On the other hand I simply lack the financial means to rent a synchronous DSL line with a fix IP address.
Second, what you complain about is the result of OpenNIC's own policy decisions. If OpenNIC accepted real money and not exclusively that geekish namecoin nonsense, we quite naturally would become attractive to other users than geeks.

> Hopefully now OpenNIC has a good search engine (seek.geek) things might
> change, but there still needs to be the content to bring people in,
> which is sorely lacking and do you really think others can, will or even
> should start it all off?

As far as I see it, OpenNIC has the appearance of a geek project, and as long as this image doesn't change... Why is it that the search engine's name is seek.geek, not seek.free? See what I mean?

>
> Blah blah blah...
Not in the least! Yours has been (apart from Quinn's "Changes" proposal recently) the first competent and constructive posting to this list for months.

Martin

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