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[Al Beano <albino AT autistici.org>]

Hi Dmitry,

Sorry for my sporadic replies — I've been quite busy lately and haven't had 
time to fully catch up with this list. 

I don't think quantity necessarily equals quantity in this situation. OpenNIC 
doesn't want to offer a bewilderingly large array of TLDs, it wants to offer 
a selection of unique ones with passionate people behind them. 

Alt-ccTLDs then present a couple of issues: firstly, that there's no way to 
decide who should control them: the first people to come along might not be 
the best. This is not meant as a personal insult to you; I think you'd be a 
very good administrator of .rus, but this issue could crop up in other cases. 

On the other hand, the opposite may be true: why should only Russia and 
Australia have alt-ccTLDs? We will never have enough T1 admins to cover every 
country (at least, not for the foreseeable future). 

ICANN solves this problem by giving each country TLD to some government 
authority, afaik, and letting them do what they wish with it. This isn't 
really possible for us. 

Secondly, promoting the creation of alt-ccTLDs encourages would-be 
contributors simply to pick a country and start a TLD for that. Every 
proposal would look the same and there wouldn't be any way to differentiate 
the people behind them. If people don't have to demonstrate that they're 
willing to put in the time to develop an original idea and charter for the 
TLD they want, I think we may see many new TLDs being created and quickly 
falling into disrepair. 

I understand that this is harsh criticism to an idea you're obviously 
enthusiastic about, but overall, I don't see a real advantage of creating 
these TLDs. Unless these issues are addressed in some way, I will vote no to 
proposals of new ccTLDs. 

albino

On 27 September 2017 12:03:20 BST, "Dmitry S. Nikolaev" <dn AT mega-net.ru> 
wrote:
>Hi.
>
>Can anyone else say something about new-nations.net ?
>
>Also:
>
>On 24.09.2017 17:05, Al Beano wrote:
>> If we start allowing them, everyone will want one for their country
>and people who just want a TLD will be able to get one with relatively
>little real work (and therefore won't think much of it).
>On 24.09.2017 20:27, vv AT cgs.pw wrote:
>> I too am a little confused about the idea of a ccTLD.
>
>On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 10:23 PM, Dmitry S. Nikolaev <dn AT mega-net.ru
><mailto:dn AT mega-net.ru>> wrote:
>
>
>    And why not ? What are you afraid of ?
>
>So Ole (vv AT cgs.pw) and Al Beano (albino AT autistici.org) can you answer ?
>
>Thanks.
>
>With best regards, Dmitry S. Nikolaev
>virus_net
>
>On 26.09.2017 19:18, Dmitry S. Nikolaev wrote:
>> Hmmm... are you sure ? What a news for me ! Separate projects but
>with
>> obligations to each other ?
>>
>> If you sure, so than they can take and other TLD`s also.
>> I find this post
>https://www.new-nations.net/en/discussion/show/id/239
>> about .o TLD
>>
>> If I understand right they now have only:
>> - .uu
>> - .ti
>> - .te
>> -.ku   
>>
>> Maybe then it is worth combining OpenNIC efforts with them ? I think
>> it`s better.
>>
>> P.S. I don`t see .RUS there or even suggestion of it.
>> With best regards, Dmitry S. Nikolaev
>> virus_net
>> On 26.09.2017 18:31, Amrit Panesar wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 10:23 PM, Dmitry S. Nikolaev
><dn AT mega-net.ru>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     And why not ? What are you afraid of ? 
>>>
>>>
>>> Conflicts with New Nations is one that comes to mind
>>>
>>> https://www.new-nations.net/en/about/showpage
>>>
>>> Alternative cc-tlds generally go through New Nations.
>>>
>>> I could be wrong, but as far as I know, OpenNIC still has active
>>> peering agreements with New Nations.
>>> I'm not aware of how active their community is, but New Nations
>seems
>>> more appropriate for an alternative cc-tld
>>>
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Amrit Panesar
>>> http://amrit.be
>>>
>
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