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[Angélica Luna <amor AT crista.es>]

I forgot to clarify, since you asked the question of essentially what 
distinguishes FreeNIC from OpenNIC, that FreeNIC TLDs are not voted on; 
they are registered unilaterally like second-level domains in an OpenNIC 
TLD.

El 2016-09-18 a las 09:15, Angélica Luna escribió:
> It is relevant to OpenNIC as it is an extension of the OpenNIC root with
> the intent of bypassing OpenNIC's TLD registration requirements. So to
> answer your question, FreeNIC is an option if you want to register a TLD
> but you don't want to provide second-level registrations, a charter and
> a T1.
>
> It is also relevant to OpenNIC as I'm the creator of .free, which I
> started as part of an earlier incarnation of FreeNIC with the same goal.
> FreeNIC was the registrar for .free domains before Julian took over the
> TLD. I abandoned the project years ago but I've decided to see if anyone
> is interested in bringing it back.
>
> Finally, OpenNIC is the current de facto official altroot of the
> internet. Anyone looking to post anything altroot-related should come to
> this mailing list, with the intent of continuing the discussion in
> another venue if it has to do with a root other than OpenNIC itself. I
> do not believe that announcing the creation of a new root here is in
> violation of OpenNIC policy, especially considering that the FreeNIC
> master server uses the OpenNIC root and is listed on
> http://servers.opennicproject.org/