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[Jonah Aragon <jonaharagon AT gmail.com>]

Draago, you make some valid points I'm going to take time to consider. I'd just like to reply to two of them right now.

1. I don't necessarily want to become as big as .com, rather I wanted to make a TLD within the OpenNIC community that could be a go-to choice when none of the other TLDs pertain to the topic. It may not seem like a large issue now for the reasons you mention, most of the internet can't access the OpenNIC network, but I want to work towards getting ISPs and other large organizations to support the network in the future, and I see this as a good step in that direction. While it works fine for the community right now (highly tech oriented), not everybody may want .geek domains to represent them :)

2. I want to be heavily aligned with OpenNIC, it's part of this mission to get many users on the network, and all our resources will reflect that. That being said, I don't think .onic being the TLD makes much sense from a practical view, users won't want to type .onic every time they visit a domain, as a reminder they're already on the network anyways. And I can't picture many people saying "w w w dot my domain dot o-nick" to people (in 10-20 years, when OpenNIC becomes more ubiquitous).
Additionally, companies and other entities may be dissuaded by having OpenNIC branding in their domains (this is looking into the future), it would be similar to if ICANN created .icann and expected most companies to use it; it seems to imply a relationship with ICANN that doesn't necessarily exist.

That being said, I'll keep thinking about the points you made, and alternate choices in case .on becomes a sticking point with people, but for now .on is still my primary choice of TLD.

Hope all that (mostly rambling) made sense.

Jonah

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