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[Angélica Luna <amor AT crista.es>]

I'm starting FreeNIC as a network of resolvers of a free root. Anyone is 
free to register any TLD for personal use, without the requirement of a 
charter or any other requirements except that it doesn't conflict with 
an OpenNIC or ICANN TLD (if OpenNIC or ICANN registers your TLD, you 
must change it so that FreeNIC remains compatible). If the intent of 
your TLD is to provide second-level registrations, my advice would be to 
write up a charter and propose it to OpenNIC as you will probably get 
more users this way. But if you want a TLD for example to point web 
users at http://tld/ or to receive mail at username@tld you may register 
as many as you would like on the IRC channel at irc.efnet.org #nic

In theory, any legal use of FreeNIC TLDs is permitted. In practice, 
however, the limitations of an altroot discourage commercial use, so 
this is a de facto non-corporate endeavor. The intent is to empower 
people through personal ownership of the internet. "Free" refers to 
freedom (see Richard Stallman's definition of "free software") as well 
as to the obvious absence of any registration fees.

Anyone that the FreeNIC name server operators unanimously deem 
trustworthy is permitted to become an operator. There are no tiers, only 
the central master server at 95.154.208.12 (FreeNIC: isabella.nic; 
OpenNIC: ns1.brk.uk.dns.opennic.glue) and any slave servers approved by 
a vote on the channel. All servers must slave all FreeNIC TLDs, 
eliminating the need for a FreeNIC root zone, so the OpenNIC or ICANN 
root may be used.

If you wish to engage in a discussion about FreeNIC, please join the 
channel as this mailing list is intended for OpenNIC discussion only. 
I'm available most of the time to answer any questions; if you don't 
receive an immediate reply, please stay on the channel and wait for 
someone to see your message.