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[Jeff Taylor <shdwdrgn AT sourpuss.net>]

As Jonah mentioned in the other thread, it would be best for us to go 
ahead and plan ahead for the worst.  Based on the comments so far, 
nobody wants to just drop our existing domains under .free, so we will 
move forward with the assumption that we will either be ignoring the new 
ICANN zone, or we will be transferring our domains to a new zone.

In the event that we migrate to a new TLD, lets start discussing what we 
would like to use.  So far "libre" (French) and "liber" (Latin) have 
both been proposed.  Libre is a more mainstream term and thus has more 
of a potential to also be snagged up by ICANN in the future.  Does 
anyone else have suggestions they want to propose?

Going off of RFC3696, section 2, valid TLDs may contain standard letters 
(A-Z), numbers (0-9), or hyphens (-).  The TLD may NOT start or end with 
a hyphen, nor may it be completely numeric.  So as an example, we could 
legally create a new TLD with the name .fr33. Please keep these rules in 
mind when submitting your suggestions for a new TLD.