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[Jonah Aragon <jonaharagon AT gmail.com>]

I think we should review as a community the top level domains that were created by now-defunct alternate roots such as AlterNIC and Pacific Root that OpenNIC has officially decided to not conflict with even after their disbandment (according to http://wiki.opennicproject.org/AlternateNICs). It is my opinion that many of these could prove useful as additions to our namespace, but under our current policy we prohibit applications because of their prior status. Many of these zones have been offline for over a decade and can't be reasonably reclaimed at this point by their original issuers in my opinion, and should be open to potential future TLD applicants.

The top level domains I'm calling into question are as follows:

• exp
• llc
• lnx
• ltd
• med
• nic
• noc
• porn
• xxx
• fcn

• ais
• bali
• belize
• bio
• cal
• career
• chem
• children
• costarica
• ind
• job
• lib
• medic
• nomad
• npo
• ppp
• sat
• satcom
• satnet
• scuba
• socal
• stream
• work
• www
• biz
• cars
• corp
• etc
• family
• food
• jobs
• ocean
• men
• ngo
• not
• online
• wine
• women

I realize a few of these are currently in use by ICANN (.biz, for example) and those should definitely not be used on the OpenNIC network, but other domains (.nic, .llc) are not currently in use by any parties, and I think that any future applications for their namespace should be allowed.

Jonah