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

Agreed: any future applications for namespace that are not currently in 
use by any parties should be allowed.

Cheers,

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Simon

On 2016-12-04 19:46, Jonah Aragon wrote:
> 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 [1]). 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
>
> Links:
> ------
> [1] http://wiki.opennicproject.org/AlternateNICs
>
>
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