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

We have indeed considered New Nations as an entry point but since we 
want to run servers ourselves it made more sense to liaise with OpenNIC 
community directly.

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Simon

On 2016-12-03 19:14, Jonah Aragon wrote:
> There is a lot of conflict about two letter TLDs, however if you do
> represent a country, even a contested or unrecognized one you may have
> better luck, we do peer with New Nations after all, and they do the
> same thing.
>
> Jonah
>
> On Dec 3, 2016 2:41 AM, <spaesani AT mail.com> wrote:
>
> > Simon I'm going to have an issue with a .II tld as I have been
> > attempting to get that going here since at least June 2015.
> > I've been designing / developing iinteractive software for some time
> > and this is the release venue.
> > I haven't put through a tld request as various issues needed to be
> > worked out, namely, 2 letter TLDs which was resolves a while back.
> > If I have to put in a tld request ASAP to "stake a claim " I'd
> > appreciate older members letting me know.
> >
> > --
> > Sent from myMail app for Android Tuesday, 29 November 2016, 09:29AM
> > -05:00 from "Simon Castano" <discuss AT lists.opennicproject.org>:
> >
> > > Dear all,
> > >
> > > I have joined this mailing list not long ago and would like to get
> > > some
> > > clarifications with regards to registration fee for domain names.
> > >
> > > Reading OpenNIC charter, I could not find anything preventing one
> > > to
> > > charge registration fee for domain names. On the other hand, I
> > > feel
> > > reluctance for approving domain names that would charge a
> > > registration
> > > fee.
> > >
> > > To me, and to reply to the below, even ICANN domains' are free to
> > > use as
> > > one do not pay ICANN when resolving google.com [1] - on the other
> > > side,
> > > running a DNS server or a website is nerver free as one has to
> > > host
> > > website and DNS servers.
> > > On top of that I think there may be semantic issue with the term
> > > "free"
> > > in the below; which I'd translate to "libre" meaning it is open to
> > >
> > > anyone rather than "gratis".
> > >
> > > Could you pelase share your opinion on this?
> > >
> > > For reference, note that we (Liberland) are planning to run
> > > OpenNIC
> > > servers to operate ".ll" TLD with a bridge to decentralized DNS
> > > and a
> > > PKI based on Bitcoin blockchain. We are planning to use our
> > > E-Resindency
> > > app as an easy entry point to resolve OpenNIC domain.
> > > In the meantime, we are lobying to have LL added to the ISO 3166-1
> > > and
> > > obtain ICANN delegation to operate this ccTLD so that .ll wesites
> > > can be
> > > reached by a broader audience. Note that we would keep on
> > > operating
> > > OpenNIC servers.
> > > To come back on domain registration fee: we were planning on some
> > > sort
> > > of auction where domains registration would be free (i.e. gratis)
> > > unless
> > > interested parties bid domain up.
> > >
> > > More details to follow on the above at a later stage.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > ---
> > > Simon J. Castaño Segondy
> > > Member of the representation of the Free Republic of Liberland in
> > > the
> > > Netherlands
> > >
> > > On 2016-11-25 15:46, Hunter 9999 wrote:
> > > > On our website we say "It’s free to use".
> > > > For me that includes the usage as domain registrar.
> > > > So we shouldn't charge for domain registrations.
> > > > And if I remember right, we have already discussed that on the
> > > > mailinglist before, with the result, that we will never charge
> > > for
> > > > registrations.
> > > >
> > > >
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