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[Renard Bleu <dnsadmin123456 AT proton.me>]

According to the policy https://wiki.opennic.org/opennic/creating_new_tlds   
, "Additionally, you MUST meet the following requirements before proposing 
your TLD to the community: You MUST have a process for users to register 
domains. Domain registrations SHOULD be provided free of charge, and ... ", 
the "private, single-user registry" TLD whose registration is closed to the 
public is not permitted. 




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On Monday, May 18th, 2026 at 10:49, Zachariah Gibbens <zach AT gibbens.dev> 
wrote:

> If it's for a single user, why not just run it privately alongside the 
> openNIC (or ICANN) root?
> 
> Personally I think we've never had a closed tld before that I can remember 
> and probably shouldn't start now.
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> On Monday, 05/18/26 at 01:26 Jacob Bachmeyer <jcb62281 AT gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/17/26 22:49, sammy sammy wrote:
> > Hello OpenNIC Community,
> >
> > I would like to propose a new Top-Level Domain for the OpenNIC network.
> >
> > [...]
> > 3. Eligibility & Registration Policy: Registration is CLOSED to the
> > public. This is a private, single-user registry. Only the
> > administrator will create and manage sub-domains under this TLD.
> > [...]
> 
> Do we really want vanity TLDs?  I know that ICANN has allowed them, but
> should we have TLDs like that in OpenNIC?
> 
> 
> -- Jacob
> 
> 
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