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

>> I totally understand what you want. I'm sorry OpenNIC didn't offer it. How
>> can we compete with ICANN with their massive resources?
> Are the donations helping? Where do we find updated information about the 
> donations. Where do members vote on what the donations are spent on?

The donations are helping. We have bought 2 new VPSes with 4GB of ram
and 95GB HDDs and a linode nodebalancer so we can finish a HA website.
Where the money is being spent currently is not being voted on. We first
needed to address the infrastructure we have and fix it, and that is
what we've done. We have 5K left of donations. We will also be
purchasing some _real_ SSL certs for the main website and wiki and doing
SSL only.

> I was tempted to set up a Tier2 in the Equinox data centre, and help you 
> guys set up anycast, but when I saw you were getting donations and setting 
> up VPSs, I figured you didn't need it then. 
> That may have been a bad presumption on my part.

We are not setting up T2s with the donations at this point. Anycast is
also out of the question as we are not well setup for it.

--julian