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["Daniel Quintiliani" <danq AT runbox.com>]

.free/.libre and the new .o have the same exact purpose in their charters and 
don't claim "the right to raise prices to cover operating costs". Methinks 
"TOWER CoreDomain" is a company trying to misuse OpenNIC to promote Web 
hosting services. .free/.libre and .o have the same promotional purposes and 
at no cost (IIRC .o charges for SSL certificates and the like). I vote No on 
".core" and any other TLD used solely to advertise a company's products.

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-Dan Q

On Thu,  2 Feb 2017 20:32:42 +0000 (UTC), <josephmarsden AT towerdevs.xyz> wrote:

> I’d like to start a proposal for the .core TLD on the OpenNIC network.
> ========
> CHARTER
> ========
> 
> The .core TLD, operated by CoreDomain and managed by TOWER, is to be used by
> individuals or commercial entities (individual or groups) to promote their
> resource hosting (e.g virtual machine, website, file hosting) on the OpenNIC
> network. The domain should only be used for the aforementioned purposes,
> however exceptions may be granted in special cases.
> Use of this TLD is not a given right to any holder, and domain names may be
> revoked by the CoreDomain administration team, TOWER management or by a vote
> of domain holders (henceforth known as "Members"), especially pertaining to
> violations of our policies (see Section 2).
> 
> "Members" in this charter refers to owners of .core domains and not OpenNIC
> members unless otherwise noted.
> 
> 1. REGISTRATION
> ----------------------------
> 
> .core domains will be available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Some
> domains have been reserved for administrative use (see Section 6) prior to
> public registration.
> 
> Registrations immediately after approval will be handled manually via email.
> An automated registration system is in development and will be available at
> register.core when it becomes available. Registrations will be available 
> from
> 3 month to 2 year periods. All registrations will be available for free 
> after
> approval, however, the CoreDomain administration reserves the right to raise
> prices as needed to cover operating costs.
> 
> 2. ABUSE
> ---------------
> 
> TOWER will not tolerate the following behaviour, and use of our domains for
> any of the following is grounds for termination (see Section 3):
> 
> -      Domain squatting
> -      Spam email delivery
> -      Malware distribution
> -      Malicious interference with computer systems
> -     Using the TLD for any other purpose not outlined in this charter
> 
> 
> Our abuse policies are in line with OpenNIC's abuse policies as well
> (http://wiki.opennicproject.org/TLDPolicy - "Obnoxious Activity: Spam &
> Cracking"), and any policies listed there apply to .on domains as well.
> CoreDomain is not a domain police force and meaningful abuse enforcement 
> will
> be reliant on members reporting. All abusive behavior should be immediately
> reported to abuse AT central.core so administration can take action.
> 
> 3. TERMINATION / REVOCATION
> --------------------------------------------------
> 
> Domains can be immediately terminated if they are found to be in violation 
> of
> our policies by the CoreDomain administration or TOWER management, and a
> notice will be sent to the registrant of the offending domain. Domains can
> also be terminated via a member vote. Membership is granted to any domain
> holder, 1 vote per member regardless of the amount registrations they hold.
> Member votes are subject to policies as listed in Section 4.
> 
> Domains may also be revoked by the CoreDomain administration if the OpenNIC
> membership at large moves to revoke a registration. We do not foresee a
> circumstance where OpenNIC as a whole will be required to vote on the
> revocation of a .core domain, but if the need arises we will comply with any
> such vote.
> 
> 4. VOTING
> ----------------
> 
> All matters of administrative importance will be voted upon by members of 
> the
> CoreDomain domain registry administration team. Motions will be passed by a
> simple majority of votes (50% + 1). The CoreDomain administration, and the
> higher TOWER management, holds the right to veto any member votes, in order 
> to
> retain control of .core operation.
> 
> 5. DISPUTES
> --------------------
> 
> Trademark holders should email legal AT towerdevs.xyz if they wish to dispute a
> domain. TOWER itself will revoke or transfer registrations if ordered by a
> legitimate court of law, as a courtesy to that country, as applicable to
> OpenNIC's dispute policy.
> 
> 6. RESERVED DOMAINS
> -------------------------------------
> 
> The following domains are reserved by the CoreDomain administration and will
> never be available for public registration:
> 
> -     Register.core – Domain registration site.
> -     Central.core – Administration and management site.
> -     About.core – Overview site, CoreDomain hub.
> -     Admin.core – CoreDomain administration site.
> -     Websites.core – For future web hosting.
> -     Secure.core – Future SSL certificates.
> -     Nic.core – Reserved for redirection.
> -     Opennic.core – Reserved for redirection.
> -     Www.core – Reserved for redirection.
> -     Files.core – Future file hosting site.
> -     Citadel.core – Reserved.
> -     Exertus.core – Reserved for backend operations.
> -     Arctarus.core – Reserved for backend operations.
> -     Helios.core – Reserved for backend operations.
> -     Deepsector.core – Reserved for special operations.
> -     Meta.core – Internal server operations and control.
> -     Example.core – Example web page
> -     Test.core – Test web page, is a blank page on the DNS server
> -     Keystore.core – Used for internal private key operations.
> -     Vote.core – Used for mass user polling.
> 
> 7. AMENDMENTS AND MISC. POLICIES
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Amendments to this charter may be added by a vote of .core members.
> Additionally, the CoreDomain administration is permitted to provide a 
> binding
> user agreement for registrations at register.core that may include policies
> outside the scope of this charter.
> 
> 8. FUTURE
> ----------------
> 
> CoreDomain and TOWER are committed to the future of the OpenNIC network and
> will attempt to provide, in addition to the .core Tier 1 server, multiple 
> Tier
> 2 DNS servers to support the OpenNIC infrastructure, free and paid web
> hosting, and free and paid file hosting.These services have no deadline for
> completion at the moment. We also wish to help in spreading the word about
> OpenNIC via self promotion and joining the Public Relations Working Group
> http://wiki.opennicproject.org/PublicRelationsWG.
> 
> 9. CONTACTS
> --------------------
> 
> -     CoreDomain Administration: administration AT central.core
> -     Abuse Reporting: abuse AT central.core (All reserved .core domains have
> the same abuse email.)
> -     Legal Team: legal AT towerdevs.xyz (for subjects such as DMCA and legal
> action)
> -     Billing support: billing AT websites.core, billing AT files.core (for
> premium file and website hosting)
> -     Webmaster: webmaster AT central.core (All reserved .core domains have the
> same webmaster.)
> -     Postmaster: postmaster AT central.core (All reserved .core domains have
> the same postmaster.)
> 
> ====
> 
> This charter template used under license
> (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/) very kindly provided by
> Jonah Aragon.
> 
> Note: Our non-OpenNIC front is at https://core.towerdevs.xyz (which will
> direct users to configure their DNS settings to OpenNIC and auto redirect
> them, or if they already are using OpenNIC they will automatically be
> redirected to https://central.core for domain registration instructions. 
> This
> site is currently not online yet as it is undergoing the design process.)
> 
> Thanks for reading through this proposal, we are open to suggestions for any
> changes.
> 
> Joseph Marsden
> Root Administrator at CoreDomain and Director at TOWER
> IRC: CitadelCore
> Email: josephmarsden AT towerdevs.xyz
> 
> Sorry if this got sent as a duplicate... I think Outlook broke. :/
> 
> 
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