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[Roman Hargrave <roman AT hargrave.info>]

I primarily am curious about the list of reserved domains, primarily some of 
them seemingly arbitrary 

* citadel.core
* exertus.core
* arctarus.core
* helios.core

If these are all reserved for "backend operations" it would suggest to me 
that they are in fact the
names of individual services or "machines" (as it were), which strikes me as 
something that one would
prefer to use a subdomain of a more meaningful domain, e.g. 
`exertus.nic.core`, `exertus.tower.core` or `exertus.central.core` for.

On Thu,  2 Feb 2017 20:32:44 +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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