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[Simon Castano <netherland-office AT liberland.org>]

Dear all,

I have joined this mailing list not long ago and would like to get some 
clarifications with regards to registration fee for domain names.

Reading OpenNIC charter, I could not find anything preventing one to 
charge registration fee for domain names. On the other hand, I feel 
reluctance for approving domain names that would charge a registration 
fee.

To me, and to reply to the below, even ICANN domains' are free to use as 
one do not pay ICANN when resolving google.com - on the other side, 
running a DNS server or a website is nerver free as one has to host 
website and DNS servers.
On top of that I think there may be semantic issue with the term "free" 
in the below; which I'd translate to "libre" meaning it is open to 
anyone rather than "gratis".

Could you pelase share your opinion on this?


For reference, note that we (Liberland) are planning to run OpenNIC 
servers to operate ".ll" TLD with a bridge to decentralized DNS and a 
PKI based on Bitcoin blockchain. We are planning to use our E-Resindency 
app as an easy entry point to resolve OpenNIC domain.
In the meantime, we are lobying to have LL added to the ISO 3166-1 and 
obtain ICANN delegation to operate this ccTLD so that .ll wesites can be 
reached by a broader audience. Note that we would keep on operating 
OpenNIC servers.
To come back on domain registration fee: we were planning on some sort 
of auction where domains registration would be free (i.e. gratis) unless 
interested parties bid domain up.

More details to follow on the above at a later stage.

Thanks

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Simon J. Castaño Segondy
Member of the representation of the Free Republic of Liberland in the 
Netherlands

On 2016-11-25 15:46, Hunter 9999 wrote:
> On our website we say "It’s free to use".
> For me that includes the usage as domain registrar.
> So we shouldn't charge for domain registrations.
> And if I remember right, we have already discussed that on the
> mailinglist before, with the result, that we will never charge for
> registrations.
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