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[Joseph Marsden <josephmarsden AT towerdevs.xyz>]

I’ve clarified a few things in my previous conversation with Jonah and Daniel, not CoreDomain nor TOWER is allowed to make any profit from .core, by design. The main profiting activity will be premium web and file hosting, alongside our free web and file hosting (although that’s certainly not the purpose of .core).

 

.core is a wide spanning TLD that’s intended to be used for activities related to servers, server hosting, and file hosting.

 

>Just updated the charter to reflect things, now a YES vote of at least 60% of CoreDomain users is required to raise operating costs at any time.

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>I’ve also posted the operating charter publicly so any changes can be made more easily.

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>https://towerce-my.sharepoint.com/personal/josephmarsden_towerdevs_xyz/_layouts/15/guestaccess.aspx?docid=05f11401594b64852a61a0e3091ef2918&authkey=AW4f0J-G1uREgKiVblRRWxo&expiration=2017-03-04T21:12:18.000Z

 

 

From: discuss-request AT lists.opennicproject.org [mailto:discuss-request AT lists.opennicproject.org] On Behalf Of mk
Sent: 02 February 2017 9:17 PM
To: discuss AT lists.opennicproject.org
Subject: Re: [opennic-discuss] .core TLD Proposal

 

I vote NO on ".core" as long as "the CoreDomain administration reserves the right to raise prices as needed to cover operating costs."

 

On 02/02/2017 20:32, josephmarsden AT towerdevs.xyz wrote:

I’d like to start a proposal for the .core TLD on the OpenNIC network.

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CHARTER

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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

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.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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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- 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.)

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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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