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[Jeff Taylor <shdwdrgn AT sourpuss.net>]

We have purchased a couple new ICANN domains to help ease the access to 
OpenNIC pages and possibly get some traffic coming from the big search 
engines.  While we have a general idea for using these new links, we're 
open to discussion for new ideas...

http://opennic.pw/
This page is currently redirected to 
http://www.opennicproject.org/members/.  The new link will likely be a 
lot easier to remember for anyone wishing to visit the member's page.  
(Yes I know, I still need to ADD password functionality to the member's 
page, the irony is not lost.)

http://opennic.link/
This one has the most potential for us.  The idea is to add DNS records 
to create subdomains for existing OpenNIC domains. So for example you 
could go to http://reg.dyn.opennic.link/ and register a new domain.  
There are a number of pointers already created, however I am running a 
script to comb through all of our domains to collect anything that was 
missed in the first pass.  Please note that this will only be applied to 
OpenNIC TLDs, and the .bit domains will NOT be included in this (they 
are more of a specialized peer, and providing direct ICANN access to 
their records is likely against their terms).

For those who are interested in having your website available through 
the ICANN domain, you must add the appropriate info to your webserver 
configuration.  For apache users this would mean adding a ServerAlias 
directive (IE: ServerAlias reg.dyn.opennic.link).  For nginx, add the 
new name to server_name.  I will have a much more accurate zone file for 
opennic.link sometime later today, which should include A/AAAA records 
for all active opennic domains.

If anyone wants to discuss including other record types, please state 
why you want to include it.  I could see a reason for adding MX records 
so that mailservers under opennic domains were reachable through ICANN, 
but I think this should be done on an individual basis (where the server 
admin makes a direct request for their record to be added to 
opennic.link). Any others?