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With the recent activity that Discord has been bringing and the constant new Discord related services giving out custom urls instead of the randomised generic Discord.gg links, a .discord or similar TLD would bring quite a lot of new users if promoted right. I don't know about legal issues, but the other services have gotten away with having discord in their domain name.

Haruki N. Grande
https://harukigrande.pirate/

On 2017-09-12 21:15, vv AT cgs.pw wrote:

I've brought up our TLDs in the past, and
it seems like it's hard to get much interest
or action in this regard.

There is probably a good reason for this.

Content is not so easy to create and for
the most part people want it communicated
to as many people as possible so they use
ICANN domains instead of, or in addition to
ours. There seems to be little interest in
having content which is only OpenNIC accessible.

The other major internet sphere where we see
this is with .onion sites. The difference
there is that there is a distinct reason for
using those, so it also seems like there is
much more uptake by content creators.

What would be the reason for using an OpenNIC
domain exclusively for ones content? I am
asking because that is probably what we need
to answer if we want our TLDs used more.

There is also another minor problem, and that
is that most of the people involved with
OpenNIC are primarily interested in spending
time developing the infrastructure and not
content. This is great because we need these
people to shoulder the whole program, but
that's not the kind of person who spends hours
writing web sites.

As for games, I don't really know anything about
them and how their interests can help us much.
Do gamers have a practical use for TLDs that are
not reachable by the greater population? Perhaps
they do, I don't know.

There may be other special interest groups who
would be interested in our TLDs for various
reasons. But I think that the difficulty of using
non ICANN names is not easy to overcome. Yes, a small
percentage of the population is indeed able to change
and maintain a domain name resolver address in their
OS, but most can't or simply are not interested is
such things. It seems to me that we will be limited
to a very small number of interested people unless
something changes in that regard. I note that even
something as large as The Daily Stormer has been
moving around various hosts and when they can't get
one, prefer to default to a .onion address.

To sum up, I don't think we'll have much luck
promoting our TLDs except to the very few who do not
want to use ICANN or find a .onion unacceptable.

Regards,
        Ole


On Tue, 12 Sep 2017 14:05:56 +0300
"Dmitry S. Nikolaev" <dn AT mega-net.ru> wrote:

So, that`s all ? Anybody else ? More opinions ?
What next ? Forget about TLDs ?

With best regards, Dmitry S. Nikolaev

Moscow, Russia
phone: +7 (499) 678 8007 [ext. 6003]
fax: +7 (499) 678 8007 [ext. 7777]
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On 09.09.2017 08:20, Dmitry S. Nikolaev wrote:

Hi.

First of all thanks for the feedback.

Christopher <weblionx AT gmail.com> wrote:
people running TLDs like that is asking for trademark
lawsuits.

Lawsuits to who ? Me ? :) I don`t care I am not in USA.
To you ? When (and IF) they can notice such domain you
can always say "not we (openNIC.org) own this domain"
and/or "Ok, we will replace/remove it".
And IF this will happen I think openNIC will have
absolutely free promotion to many people again because
it can be in the world news :) Also, about which lines
in law you are talking about ?

For what ? We don`t use this names for commercial
purposes and don`t tell anything about this is our
products or trade marks or something like this.
Also we can (and I think must) reserve all trade marks
names 2level domains in TLDs and not allow to register
them. Or much more - do HTTP redirect to the real site
(example: rockstar.gta --HTTP-redirect->
www.rockstargames.com)

These companies are making money on the players
(community) and they are glad when community are
growing up.

I agree that you are right that in openNIC not enough
content, so we need to change it if we want openNIC to
be massive project and this a chance to get it.
.games or .game is good idea too, but i think it will
be harder to attract people (content) into it.

On 08.09.2017 20:50, Daniel Quintiliani wrote:

I use .dyn and .bit addresses for my Minetest game
servers, and list them within the game and on the
forums.

https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=13401#p194643
https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=16726#p252801
https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=17129#p260977

I try to open this URLs but there is SQL error page:
connect to MySQL refused.
Maybe .mt oe .mine TLD is good for this. YOURNICKNAME.mt

P.S. Also I want to ask about .rus TLD creation.

With best regards, Dmitry S. Nikolaev

Moscow, Russia
phone: +7 (499) 678 8007 [ext. 6003]
fax: +7 (499) 678 8007 [ext. 7777]
www: http://www.mega-net.ru
mail: dnikolaev AT mega-net.ru
SIP URI: dnikolaev AT sip.mega-net.ru || dn AT sip.mega-net.ru



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