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[kevin <krattai AT gmail.com>]

Yes, but that looked outdated.  Certainly does not indicate that there
has been recent activity.

As per the Amazon request, it is intended to be a private Tld.  So while
ICANN _might_ issue the domain, I suspect it will drop through.  If it
IS issued, then my vote would be to not change on OpenNIC as it would
not affect our users, as (according to the applicant), it is to be used
internally, by Amazon (which therefore makes no sense why they would
want to register it publicly).

See most recent submission:

https://gtldresult.icann.org/applicationstatus/applicationchangehistory:downloadtodocument/3463?t:ac=961

Cheers,

Kevin

On Thu, 2016-09-08 at 20:46 +0000, Paginas Web y Servidores wrote:
> check here
> 
> https://icannwiki.com/.free
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 15:23, kevin <krattai AT gmail.com> wrote:
>         I cannot find any press release or any other information to
>         verify .free
>         availability via ICANN.
>         
>         On one specific site, they are "pre-applying" but only
>         acknowledge that
>         the Tld is submitted for review, but not whether it IS being
>         reviewed.
>         
>         Can anyone point to definitive ICANN info?
>         
>         hmmm  ...  found on ICANN:
>         
>         https://gtldresult.icann.org/applicationstatus/viewstatus
>         
>         search for free and find all but Amazon application withdrawn:
>         
>         805   FREE   Over Keep, LLC   US
>         Contact name: Daniel Schindler
>         Contact email: overkeep AT donuts.co
>         Application ID: 1-1465-93738
>         Application status: Withdrawn
>         Evaluation result: Pass IE
>         Updates
>         PICs
>         ▶   1048   FREE   Top Level Domain Holdings Limited   US
>         Contact name: Michael Salazar
>         Contact email: tas.minds.machines.6 AT gmail.com
>         Application ID: 1-1039-66889
>         Application status: Withdrawn
>         Updates
>         PICs
>         ▶   1161   FREE   Amazon EU S.à r.l.   LU
>         Contact name: Lorna Gradden
>         Contact email: lorna.gradden.am1 AT valideus.com
>         Application ID: 1-1316-21923
>         Application status: Transition to Delegation
>         Evaluation result: Pass IE
>         Updates
>         ▶   1468   FREE   Uniregistry, Corp.   KY
>         Contact name: Frank Schilling
>         Contact email: contact AT uniregistry.com
>         Application ID: 1-845-38175
>         Application status: Withdrawn
>         Evaluation result: Pass IE
>         Updates
>         ▶   1802   FREE   Charleston Road Registry Inc.   US
>         Contact name: Sarah Falvey
>         Contact email: tas-contact2 AT google.com
>         Application ID: 1-1141-1851
>         Application status: Withdrawn
>         Evaluation result: Pass IE
>         Updates
>         
>         Kevin
>         
>         On Thu, 2016-09-08 at 20:24 +0100, Angélica Luna wrote:
>                 How about moving our .free domains to a different TLD,
>                 maybe creating
>                 a new one such as .open, rather than dropping them?
>                 I'm the creator
>                 of .free and I think .open would best match the
>                 original intent of the
>                 TLD.
>                 
>                 El 2016-09-08 a las 20:13, Jeff Taylor escribió:
>                 
>                         In the past we have always left it up to a
>                         member vote, however the
>                         vote has always leaned towards remaining
>                         compatible with ICANN.
>                         That doesn't mean this time won't be
>                         different.  If we vote to
>                         retain our own version of .free, it means
>                         nobody using opennic DNS
>                         servers can reach the icann .free
>                         websites.  Unfortunately there is
>                         no middle ground here, it has to be one way or
>                         the other.
>                         
>                         On 09/08/2016 12:17 PM, Angélica Luna wrote:
>                         
>                                 I was told OpenNIC wouldn't drop TLDs
>                                 because of ICANN's open root
>                                 policy. Has this changed?
>                                 v
>                                 
>                                 El 2016-09-08 a las 19:03, Jeff Taylor
>                                 escribió:
>                                 
>                                         It was mentioned on IRC today
>                                         that the .free TLD has been
>                                         taken
>                                         over by ICANN, which puts
>                                         opennic in conflict.  Can
>                                         anyone
>                                         confirm if this is actually
>                                         the case? 
>                                         
>                                         If this is true, then we only
>                                         have two options... retain our
>                                         TLD
>                                         and conflict with ICANN, or
>                                         drop our TLD and all of the
>                                         domains
>                                         underneath it (there are
>                                         currently 150 registered
>                                         domains).