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[Jonah Aragon <jonaharagon AT gmail.com>]

I agree... I don't think charging for domains is in any sense selling a "gift given to you"

T1/TLD operators generally have to run DNS authoritative zones, T2 servers, registry services, and other websites; all of which cost money, because computing is hardly free. TLD operators put in a lot more money and effort into the project than T2 maintainers and they should be able to charge for their services they alone provide.

From a common sense perspective at the moment, it makes no sense to charge for domains because OpenNIC--while being the largest alt-root--still has no significant usage in the real world. But OpenNIC as a project should not be about limiting the rights of TLD operators; and it shouldn't force the distribution of said earnings among all contributors to the project either.

Jonah

Note: This isn't to discourage people from running Tier 2 servers, the infrastructure requires them to stay running. I'm simply stating that at a basic level a TLD operator will have a lot more expenses to maintain than a T2 operator, and deserve the ability to create revenue to match.

On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 7:10 PM <spaesani AT mail.com> wrote:

Ole they have to operate a t2 nameserver to request the tld .
Further, to promote their tld , if its accepted, they have to work at opening up DNS access.
All for free.
I fail to see how this is free loading or taking without giving.
I think instead you're a little angry at the expenses you and possibly other members have incurred in relation to what you seem to be suggesting is a lesser investment by tld operators.
If that's the case I'd suggest you put forward a DNS rootz  operation costs assessment or estimation so we can get a good idea of what we're looking at.

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Wednesday, 07 December 2016, 07:34PM -05:00 from <vv AT cgs.pw>:

I would tend to agree with you. I'm not sure, however,
that the people who are proposing to charge for domains
are clear on the fact that they are completely
dependent on the hard work and expense offered by
others who are doing it for free. How do these people
feel about others collecting money based on their work?
In a sense, charging for domains is taking a gift that
has been freely given to you and then turning around
and selling it.

I'm not saying there is anything wrong with this,
but rather just trying to put this discussion in
some perspective.

To me everybody's work has value. But that one group
gets money and other groups don't would not sit well
with me.

Regards,
        Ole

On Wed, 7 Dec 2016 18:54:25 -0500
Maiyannah Bishop <maiyannah.bishop AT postactiv.com> wrote:

> This is the fundamental "problem" with paid services on
> OpenNIC - but it's not an unsolvable one, if someone
> wanted to come up with a fair compensation system. I'm
> indifferent when it comes to gratis versus paid - I'm
> okay with paid domains and I'm okay with free ones, in
> principle, though I think it would be very hard to
> actually monetize OpenNIC domains in the current
> ecosystem. But if we do have paid systems, nameserver
> operators whom wish compensated for the traffic on their
> servers, should be compensated. -mb
>
> On 2016-12-07 18:38, vv AT cgs.pw wrote:
> > How much of that fee goes to nameserver operators?
> >
> > ~ Ole
> >
> > On Wed, 07 Dec 2016 23:02:42 +0100
> > Hunter 9999 <mail AT hunter-9999.de> wrote:
> >
> >> I DO think OpenNIC should to be free and SHOULD mandate
> >> that on their domains. We tell on our website, that we
> >> are free, also free of cost (gratis) and for me this
> >> includes the registration of domain. As stated before
> >> by someone we should only require for paying for
> >> additional services.
> >
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