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  • From: kevin <krattai AT gmail.com>
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  • Subject: Re: [opennic-discuss] .on TLD Proposal
  • Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 22:30:52 -0600
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so ...

how about .c0m

or ...

.-on
.o-l

.o-O

.lol

?

now I think I'm just sleep deprived ...

Kevin

On Fri, 2016-11-18 at 03:40 +0000, Jonah Aragon wrote:
> I have to be completely honest, I was thinking more like on(line) than
> OpenNIC so I didn't get what you were saying at first, but it standing
> for OpenNIC makes a lot more sense so I'm going to pretend that was my
> idea the whole time...
>
>
> To answer your question though, I wanted it to be as short as possible
> *and* a real word people would know that sort of relates to the
> internet so it could kind of be as ubiquitous as .com is. To be clear
> however, I am open to changing the TLD to something else, I was just
> stating before that I didn't think it was an issue at all that .on is
> 2 characters.
>
>
> I wouldn't want to use .onic I think, as that sounds both too official
> (officially relating to the OpenNIC Project itself), and too specific
> (to non-techy users and ISPs that might want to use OpenNIC in the
> future). If there was a TLD that fit with being short, generic, and
> "not weird" (so average users might understand it, simple English
> words would work) I could change my proposal, if this is a sticking
> point with people. ".dot" comes to mind immediately as an alternative,
> but I don't know.
>
>
> Jonah
>
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 9:24 PM kevin <krattai AT gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Out of curiosity, why must the TLD be .on as that is a
> sticking point.
>
> Could it not be .onic or similar?
>
> Kevin
>
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