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[<vv AT cgs.pw>]

Oh wait, my last comment was wrong! I was talking about
DNS but I see now that it was about hosting. As far
as using an OpenNIC domain on a host I seriously doubt
there's any that don't. They give you an IP and it's up
to you what you point at it.

~ Ole



On Sat, 22 Jul 2017 00:13:35 +0000
Jonah Aragon <jonaharagon AT gmail.com> wrote:

> Hmm. Maybe we should make a wiki page of web hosts that
> allow OpenNIC domains, might be useful information to
> some.
> 
> Jonah
> 
> On Fri, Jul 21, 2017, 7:12 PM Christopher
> <weblionx AT gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I tested out adding a .geek domain to
> > NearlyFreeSpeech.net and it seemed to work fine. I
> > don't have any registered so I can't actually test
> > right now. Would just cname to the internal name they
> > give you.
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 8:02 PM, Jonah Aragon
> > <jonaharagon AT gmail.com> wrote:  
> > > Perhaps you could consider buying a VPS and doing it
> > > yourself? It isn't  
> > that  
> > > much more expensive than a hosting plan and it
> > > provides a lot more in  
> > terms  
> > > of flexibility and reliability. As low as $5/mo at
> > > DigitalOcean.
> > >
> > > I was thinking of providing hosting services for .o
> > > users but I don't  
> > have  
> > > anything setup yet, or else I'd suggest that, ah well.
> > >
> > > You're not going to be able to use Let's Encrypt with
> > > OpenNIC domains,  
> > they  
> > > don't support our namespace.
> > >
> > > Jonah
> > >
> > > On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 6:57 PM Zac
> > > <opennicproject AT dearzac.com> wrote:  
> > >>
> > >> I tried to get DreamHost to manually add my .o
> > >> domain, but in January they said they won't. (I've
> > >> been too busy to investigate further until now)
> > >>
> > >> Does anyone know a hosting company that will let you
> > >> use OpenNIC  
> > domains?  
> > >>
> > >> Bonus if they allow/facilitate Let's Encrypt SSL
> > >> certs.
> > >>
> > >> My conversation with DreamHost:
> > >>  
> > >>  > > I apologize for the delayed response. I've been
> > >>  > > informed that we  
> > >> will not  
> > >>  > > > support the .O tld at this time. However we
> > >>  > > > might offer support  
> > >> for this  
> > >>  > > > TLD in the future. If you still have any
> > >>  > > > other questions let us  
> > >> know and  
> > >>  > > > we will be happy to address them for you.  
> > >>  > >
> > >>  > > Does "not support" mean you won't add .o as a
> > >>  > > valid TLD in the DreamHost Web Panel, or does
> > >>  > > it also mean you won't manually add my domain
> > >>  > > to my account?  
> > >>  >
> > >>  > I'm happy to assist you again. Unfortunately we
> > >>  > won't allow the .O  
> > tld  
> > >> to  
> > >>  > be used at all in your account at this time.
> > >>  > The .O tld is not a  
> > normal  
> > >>  > tld like .com or .net. We might allow it to be
> > >>  > added in the future.  
> > If  
> > >>  > you still have any other questions let us know
> > >>  > and we will address  
> > them  
> > >>  > for you.  
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
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