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[Jonah Aragon <jonaharagon AT gmail.com>]

My personal opinion is we need to drop .free to look out for new users, as disappointing as that is.

The best option is #2 in my eyes, is support .libre as a great alternative TLD. Amazon hasn't started using the TLD (except for nic.free) or allowing registrations so I'd say we have at least a few months to make the transition as smooth as possible. A lot of links will need to be updated everywhere because your registry is at reg.for.free...

I think we should try to get .libre passed as soon as possible, the charter shouldn't be that different from .free. That way during the transition period we can have both resolving to the same records for a while, while people make the switch.

Jonah

On Dec 3, 2016 2:13 AM, "Jeff Taylor" <shdwdrgn AT sourpuss.net> wrote:

Well damn...  The threat of .free being used by ICANN has been out there for a few years, almost since they opened up their gTLDs, but the application has always fallen through or been dropped. Unfortunately I see that as of November 7th Amazon successfully registered the TLD, and it is in fact resolving from ICANN now.

So we need to discuss the matter, and determine how Opennic wants to proceed.  For reference there are 157 active domains registered under .free (around 8 of those are system domains like www.free).

-- We can choose to ignore ICANN and continue using .free as an opennic TLD
-- We can move the existing opennic domains to a new TLD and support ICANN's .free
-- We can drop all opennic domains and support ICANN's .free

Although it is possible to merge the records from both sources, it is a labor-intensive pain in the butt and we would have to consider every domain name that conflicts now and in the future... This is not an option I feel is worthwhile.  Thus, the three options above are really the only choices we have.  There has been some discussion about migrating .free to a new .libre TLD under opennic, and if enough people are interested in migrating then I would take suggestions and a vote for the new TLD name.  If we want to choose option 1 above, then we do nothing and continue to ignore ICANN's TLD.  If we want option 3, then I simply remove .free from opennic, and the ICANN domains will start resolving.




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