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[Jonah Aragon <jonaharagon AT gmail.com>]

On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 2:58 PM kevin <krattai AT gmail.com> wrote:

There is no single person who "runs" openNIC, so anyone who participates
is welcome to step up and start moving on this, conferring with the list
before anything pushed out, as usual.

We do have working groups and organizations for these purposes though. Public Relations, which I am heading currently, (http://wiki.opennicproject.org/PublicRelationsWG) for example would probably organize something like this if the community wanted to send a letter. At the very least so Amazon/whoever didn't receive an email from some seemingly random person claiming to represent the project.

Anyways, regarding .free specifically we would contact Amazon: they own ("own") the ICANN version of .free so any specific demands (i.e. asking for our domains to be transferred over) would have to be handled by them, ICANN certainly couldn't do anything about that.

If we wanted to contact ICANN it would be more about reserving our TLDs for the future.

I personally do not think we should write a letter of any kind. Jeff Taylor said (in the original thread) it best:

"No, ICANN is not watching us.  If we had thousands of users who made a big stink on social media, we might get upgraded to a "nuisance""

We've lost TLDs to ICANN before and nothing has changed in the meantime. 

I would consider the whole idea a success if they even READ any letter we sent them, but I have my doubts against that. It's a useless cause that will either go unheard or uncared about. We have no leverage, so to speak.

I'd like to hear what other people think about the letter, but personally I believe it's ridiculous.

Jonah