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["Draago D. Bellasys" <info AT bellasys.com>]

I like the idea of a .o domain, and it’s certainly not clumsy. I think it lends to the idea of branding “open” as what people think when they type it.

Draago D. Bellasys 

Master Diviner of Marketing & Software Systems Architect

info AT bellasys.com

biz: 1.425.922.9976

fax: 1.206.905.2339

On Nov 18, 2016, at 7:11 PM, Daniel Quintiliani <danq AT runbox.com> wrote:

I approve a ".o" but:

"Registrations will be available from 3 month to 2 year periods. All registrations will be available for free after approval, however, the modernTLD administration holds the right to raise prices as needed to cover operating costs."

Does this mean all ".o" domains can be revoked before the 3 month to 2 year expiration date if you decide you need money? You shouldn't charge for, or change the price of, existing domains before their expiration date, and make that clear in the charter.

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-Dan Q


On Sat, 19 Nov 2016 00:07:58 +0000, Jonah Aragon <jonaharagon AT gmail.com> wrote:

[Replaces the previous '.on' TLD proposal]: This updated charter only has
minor changes from the old proposal, namely an addition to the voting
section allowing OpenNIC group votes to override the TLD operator's veto.

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CHARTER

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The .o TLD, operated by the modernTLD (a.k.a. ‘mTLD’) 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 mTLD 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 .o domains and not OpenNIC
members unless otherwise noted.

1. REGISTRATION

----------------------------

.o 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 tld.o 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 modernTLD administration
holds the right to raise prices as needed to cover operating costs.

2. ABUSE

---------------

mTLD 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. The
mTLD registry/administration 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 tld.o so administration
can take action.

3. TERMINATION / REVOCATION

--------------------------------------------------

Domains can be immediately terminated if they are found to be in violation
of our policies by the mTLD 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 mTLD 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 .o domain, but if the need arises we will comply with any
such vote.

4. VOTING

----------------

All matters of administrative importance will be voted upon by members of
the mTLD domain registry. Motions will be passed by a simple majority of
votes (50% + 1). The mTLD administration holds the right to veto any member
votes, in order to retain control of .o operation. Administrative vetoes
may be overridden by a vote by the OpenNIC community as a whole.

5. DISPUTES

--------------------

Trademark holders should email trademarks AT tld.o if they wish to dispute a
domain. mTLD 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:

- tld.o - Primary .on registration website

- www.o - Redirects to tld.o

- nic.o - Redirects to tld.o

- register.o - Redirects to tld.o

- modern.o - modernTLD administration, presently redirects to tld.on

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

- mail.o - Will be hosting an OpenNIC compatible email service

- opennic.o - Reserved

- ns1.o - Reserved

- ns2.o - Reserved

- ns3.o - Reserved

- ns4.o - Reserved

7. AMENDMENTS AND MISC. POLICIES

-------------------------------------------------------------

Amendments to this charter may be added by a vote of .o domain holders.
Additionally, the mTLD administration is permitted to provide a binding
user agreement for registrations at tld.o that may include policies outside
the scope of this charter.

8. FUTURE

----------------

The modernTLD administration is committed to the future of the OpenNIC
network and will attempt to provide, in addition to the .o 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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- mTLD Administration: admins AT modern.o (hostmaster AT opennic.o forwards here)

- Abuse Reporting: abuse AT tld.o (abuse AT opennic.o forwards here)

- Webmaster: jonah AT modern.o (webmaster AT tld.o, webmaster AT opennic.o forwards
here)

- Trademark Disputes: trademarks AT tld.o

- Other Contact: hello AT modern.o

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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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