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  • From: Angélica Luna <amor AT crista.es>
  • To: discuss AT lists.opennicproject.org
  • Subject: Re: [opennic-discuss] FreeNIC
  • Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2016 09:30:01 +0100

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/



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