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This has been mentioned before, but I think
that if we move .free it should not be .libre
My reasoning is that "libre" is a very popular
word these days. Using the more traditional
(or old fashioned) "liber" would probably be
a safer choice.

Note that "liber" is the Latin and general
European version used by most except the
French. Nothing wrong with French, but,
as noted. :)

~ vv

On Sun, 04 Dec 2016 03:14:55 +0000
Jonah Aragon <jonaharagon AT gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm strongly in favor of .libre, and I don't see a reason
> it would be used by ICANN really (and that hasn't stopped
> us before, I can see a good use case with a lot of our
> TLDs that haven't been used). .liber is also good but I
> feel like some people may not have heard of liber as
> opposed to libre which is in more popular use, and think
> it's a misspelling.
> 
> I guess I don't really have an alternate proposal, just
> wanted to show support for .libre, it seems the best
> alternative that would be aligned with .free's policies
> based on name alone.
> 
> I'd like to add I don't support numbers in TLDs for
> usability reasons. I don't think they would fall in
> popular use, especially when similar letter-only domains
> exist as an alternative (.free vs .fr33). That's just my
> opinion though, I wouldn't use it but perhaps others
> don't think the same.
> 
> Jonah
> 
> On Sat, Dec 3, 2016 at 9:04 PM Jeff Taylor
> <shdwdrgn AT sourpuss.net> wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
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