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  • From: kevin <krattai AT gmail.com>
  • To: discuss AT lists.opennicproject.org
  • Subject: Re: [opennic-discuss] Call for vote on .free issues
  • Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2016 17:48:39 -0600

1) keep
2) n/a

On Wed, 2016-12-21 at 09:08 -0700, Jeff Taylor wrote:
> We have a couple is issues that have been discussed regarding the
> impending collision with .free. From what I've seen online, the ICANN
> version is expected to launch some time in 2017, so I feel it is best to
> start planning ahead. Also because I realize we are in the holiday
> season and a lot of people may be away, I'm going to propose an extended
> voting period and will accept replies until January 2nd. This vote will
> be kept on the mailing list, so please reply to this thread...
>
> 1) Should OpenNIC keep the .FREE TLD after ICANN makes it widely
> available, or should we drop it to avoid collisions. Please vote "keep"
> or "drop" here. Keep in mind that nobody has stepped forward to make
> contact with ICANN, Amazon, or EFF to see if we can even fight this.
> And because of the popularity of the name, it is expected that .free
> domains will be very popular on ICANN.
>
> 2) If we do vote to drop .free when it becomes available on ICANN,
> OpenNIC should have a new TLD to fall back on. Proposals have been made
> for ".libre" and ".liber". Please cast your vote for which of these you
> would prefer we use.
>
>
>
> If the vote for #1 is to drop, then I will mirror all existing .free
> domains to the new TLD. We will allow domain registrations on the new
> TLD, but registrations under .free will be closed. And I will continue
> to provide resolution for the existing .free domains until such time as
> domain registrations become available on ICANN.
>
> If the vote for #1 is to keep, then I will re-open domain registrations
> under .free, and we will ignore the results from #2.
>
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