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[Jonah Aragon <jonaharagon AT gmail.com>]

I would like to start a proposal for a .on TLD on the OpenNIC network:

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CHARTER

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The .on TLD, operated by the dotON administration, is to be used by commercial and non-commercial entities (individual or groups) to promote themselves on the OpenNIC free network. This domain is intended to be used in a general sense, akin to .com in the ICANN network, and as such has a very general use case and little restrictions on registration. 

Use of this TLD is not a given right to any holder, and domain names may be revoked by the dotON administration team or by a vote of domain holders (henceforth known as "Members"), especially pertaining to violations of our policies (see Section 2).

"Members" in this charter refers to owners of .on domains and not OpenNIC members unless otherwise noted.

1. REGISTRATION

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.on domains will be available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Some domains have been reserved for administrative use (see Section 6) prior to public registration.

Registrations immediately after approval will be handled manually via email. An automated registration system is in development and will be available at register.on when it becomes available. Registrations will be available from 3 month to 2 year periods. All registrations will be available for free after approval, however, the dotON administration holds the right to raise prices as needed to cover operating costs.

2. ABUSE

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dotON will not tolerate the following behavior, and use of our domains for any of the following is grounds for termination (see Section 3):

 - Domain squatting

 - Spam email delivery

 - Malware distribution

 - Malicious interference with computer systems

Our abuse policies are in line with OpenNIC's abuse policies as well (http://wiki.opennicproject.org/TLDPolicy - "Obnoxious Activity: Spam & Cracking"), and any policies listed there apply to .on domains as well. dotON is not a domain police force and meaningful abuse enforcement will be reliant on members reporting. All abusive behavior should be immediately reported to abuse AT register.on so administration can take action.

3. TERMINATION / REVOCATION

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Domains can be immediately terminated if they are found to be in violation of our policies by the dotON administration, and a notice will be sent to the registrant of the offending domain. Domains can also be terminated via a member vote. Membership is granted to any domain holder, 1 vote per member regardless of the amount registrations they hold. Member votes are subject to policies as listed in Section 4.

Domains may also be revoked by the dotON administration if the OpenNIC membership at large moves to revoke a registration. We do not foresee a circumstance where OpenNIC as a whole will be required to vote on the revocation of a .on domain, but if the need arises we will comply with any such vote.

4. VOTING

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All matters of administrative importance will be voted upon by members of the dotON domain registry. Motions will be passed by a simple majority of votes (50% + 1). The dotON administration holds the right to veto any member votes, in order to retain control of .on operation.

5. DISPUTES

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Trademark holders should email trademarks AT register.on if they wish to dispute a domain. dotON will revoke or transfer registrations if ordered by a legitimate court of law, as a courtesy to that country, as applicable to OpenNIC's dispute policy. 

6. RESERVED DOMAINS

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The following domains are reserved by the dotON administration and will never be available for public registration:

 - register.on - Primary .on registration website

 - www.on - Redirects to register.on

 - nic.on - Redirects to register.on

 - dot.on - dotON administration, presently redirects to register.on

 - search.on - Will be hosting an OpenNIC-wide search engine

 - opennic.on - Reserved

7. AMENDMENTS AND MISC. POLICIES

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Amendments to this charter may be added by a vote of .on members. Additionally, the dotON administration is permitted to provide a binding user agreement for registrations at register.on that may include policies outside the scope of this charter.

8. FUTURE

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dotON is committed to the future of the OpenNIC network and will attempt to provide, in addition to the .on Tier 1 server, Tier 2 DNS servers to support the OpenNIC infrastructure, a search engine for the network, email services, SSL services (under a self-hosted root CA). These services have no deadline for completion at the moment. We also wish to help in spreading the word about OpenNIC via self promotion and joining the Public Relations Working Group http://wiki.opennicproject.org/PublicRelationsWG. 

9. CONTACTS

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 - dotON Administration: admins AT dot.on (hostmaster AT opennic.on forwards here)

 - Abuse Reporting: abuse AT register.on (abuse AT opennic.on forwards here)

 - Webmaster: jonah AT dot.on (webmaster AT dot.on, webmaster AT opennic.on forwards here)

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Thanks for reading through this proposal, we are open to suggestions for any changes.

Jonah Aragon

IRC: jonaharagon on #opennic

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