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[Jonah Aragon <jonaharagon AT gmail.com>]

I think we've all established the homepage needs updating.... That being said you're definitely right, you can't charge for access to public T2 servers, and not for any listed on the official servers page.

At a technical level you COULD charge for DNS access, but you wouldn't be listed on the servers page and the practice would be frowned upon.

I think we're taking this in a whole different direction though, nobody wants to charge for DNS access, only for domain names on the network. Completely different.

Jonah

On Dec 9, 2016 1:58 PM, "Maiyannah Bishop" <maiyannah.bishop AT postactiv.com> wrote:

On 2016-12-09 06:23, Amunak wrote:

Noone is forcing you to provide a T2 server. And I think noone even says it has to be free (correct me if I'm wrong, it's been a while since I read the OpenNIC guideliness). I believe that if you want to provide a paid T2 server (with some kind of whitelisting for paying users) nothing is stopping you. And by the nature of DNS noone even really can stop you. At worst you would not be allowed to be listed among the "official" OpenNIC T2 servers. But that doesn't prevent you from providing such a service. And to be fair I think that it's totally fair to charge for such service - you may have a hard time getting customers (users), especially if you didn't offer anything extra, but if you were reliable and had perhaps some extra services it may be interesting.

Am I the only one that's read the home page recently?

"No Cost (Gratis)

OpenNIC is a non profit organisation and does not charge money for access to it’s DNS services including the proposal/request of new TLDs. It’s free to use and the servers are run by volunteers, so there’s no financial pressure to corrupt the OpenNIC system. You too could be one of the volunteers!

-mb