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[Christopher <weblionx AT gmail.com>]

Isn't the point of the TLDs we have that anyone can get <name>.TLD?
Why tie anyone to <name>.discord when they can get something more
useful?

On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 7:56 PM,  <me AT harukigrande.com> wrote:
> 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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