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[Calum McAlinden <calum AT mcalinden.me.uk>]

I completely agree that it is important to have alternatives to ICANN. However, there seems to be more focus on decentralised systems as far as TLDs go, such as Namecoin. There are certainly many more active .bit domains compared to OpenNIC and I think that real decentralised systems are the way forward.

While I do see OpenNIC as important as an alternative to commercial DNS servers, I am not so sure any more about the TLDs. I will continue running the .bit bridge as I think it is useful for convenient access to the .bit domains. As soon as reliable, thin clients that do not require the blockchain are available, I can't help agree with people in the Namecoin community who see OpenNIC as "another irrelevant alt root" in terms of its TLD offerings.

I understand and accept that many people see the TLDs as part of what OpenNIC is, I just think that another new TLD, especially the proposed one without a registration interface, is not the best thing the project needs. This is also taking into the consideration that Christoffer Unes seems new to the project, having asked "what is opennic" on IRC less than 7 hours ago. I am sure he is capable of running his proposal, but it is hard to guarantee that when people tend to come and go quickly.

On Mon, 13 Jun, 2016 at 7:27 PM, kevin <krattai AT gmail.com> wrote:

I agree. I use .free and .pirate and .oss and use opennic on my own systems I manage as well as my project(s). There is no reason to call opendns tlds as dead if there remains at least one who manages it. And I'm sure there will always remain at least that and more, so these discussions and requests remain relevant. :) Kevin On Mon, 2016-06-13 at 12:44 -0400, Andrew T. Stager wrote:

I love using .free to connect to my personal server when I have control over my DNS lookups. I don't see opennic as a dead project at all; this is a truly free DNS platform and if ICANN ever began to censor "wrong think" and domain records were disappearing left and right, I like to think that we would become very popular. On Jun 13, 2016 11:47 AM, "Calum McAlinden" <calum AT mcalinden.me.uk> wrote: Personally, I don't think any new TLDs would benefit OpenNIC at present. Most of the existing TLDs seem to be poorly maintained, with no registration interfaces. There are very few if any "real" websites using OpenNIC domains and as far as alternative TLDs go I feel that OpenNIC is dead. On Mon, 13 Jun, 2016 at 4:26 PM, Christoffer Unes <christoffer2626 AT gmail.com> wrote: > well it discriminates consoles and the other so i insted go > with .gengames > > i am a fair person > > 2016-06-13 17:22 GMT+02:00 txt.file <txt.file AT txtfile.eu>: > But this discriminates consoles, smartphones and > handhelds. > -- > This message is signed. > > On 06/13/2016 05:18 PM, Christoffer Unes wrote: > > Sorry about the first one dident know there was a > tld called games from > > iana. so i just chose .pcgames insted > > > > > > > > > > > > -------- > > You are a member of the OpenNIC Discuss list. > > You may unsubscribe by emailing > discuss-unsubscribe AT lists.opennicproject.org > > > > > -------- You are a member of the OpenNIC Discuss list. You may unsubscribe by emailing discuss-unsubscribe AT lists.opennicproject.org -------- You are a member of the OpenNIC Discuss list. You may unsubscribe by emailing discuss-unsubscribe AT lists.opennicproject.org

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