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December 21 2016 5:08 PM, "Jeff Taylor" <shdwdrgn AT sourpuss.net> 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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1) drop
2) how about .lib ? or is it too short? if not .lib then .libre