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["Daniel Quintiliani" <danq AT runbox.com>]

You raise an interesting point about a general-purpose TLD for things that 
don't qualify as "geek". When I set up a game server (a VPS), I proposed a 
TLD here, but ICANN already had reserved it. 

This game (Minetest) isn't really "geek", it is an "oss" game but that has 
nothing to do with a server running it, and my server did not "encourage" 
anything, which disqualifies it from "free". I wound up going with "dyn", but 
I use a VPS, and can create a cron job. Normal Web sites don't have that 
ability.

As for ".on" vs ".onic", since people are likely not to hear about OpenNIC 
unless they set it up, I think ".onic" is better for promotional purposes, 
and so my vote is for ".onic"

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-Dan Q


On Fri, 18 Nov 2016 07:18:27 -0600, Jonah Aragon <jonaharagon AT gmail.com> 
wrote:

> 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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