The OpenNIC is a user owned and controlled Network Information Center offering a democratic, non-national, alternative to the traditional Top-Level Domain registries.

Users of the OpenNIC DNS servers, in addition to resolving host names in the Legacy U.S. Government DNS, can resolve host names in the OpenNIC operated namespaces as well as in the namespaces with which we have peering agreements (at this time those are AlterNIC and The Pacific Root).

Membership in the OpenNIC is open to every user of the Internet. All decisions are made either by a democratically elected administrator or through a direct ballot of the interested members and all decisions, regardless of how they are made, within OpenNIC are appealable to a vote of the general membership.

Good news! The OpenNIC community is again active and is mobilizing to bring alternative roots to the masses. We will be updating the informational sites (such as this one) in the next few weeks, and have started an audit of the existing OpenNIC infrastructure to determine what needs to be done to bring OpenNIC back to life.

Please note that much of the information on this website has been (or is being) migrated to the new wiki! For the most up-to-date information about OpenNIC, visit the wiki ([alt]).

In addition, the mailing list has become active again (to subscribe, send an e-mail to majordomo@opennic.unrated.net with the word help in the body of the message [no subject required]). We welcome your input!