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This is the Members' discussion forum for the OpenNIC. You can find more information about the OpenNIC at our primary web site.

The OpenNIC is a user controlled Network Information Center offering a democratic, non-national, alternative to the traditional Top-Level Domain registries. In case you were looking for them, the traditonal TLDs are currently served by Network Solutions with policies set by ICANN.

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.

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time out of .glue domains
By torusturtle, Section Miscellaneous
Posted on Thu Apr 6th, 2006 at 09:23:02 AM PST
Technical
From time to time I can't open .glue domains at all. Firefox displays the time out page and I have to wait some minutes till it works again.

Anyone having the same problems?
Can there be done something to make it work better?

Alex

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Did we give up essential liberty?
By tufan, Section Forum Site
Posted on Mon Feb 27th, 2006 at 11:54:36 PM PST
Ideology
I (hopefully) joined yesterday, and I thought I should wait to see some discussions coming up, but I myself moderated two messages to appear in the front page.

Did I join a ghost town?

I was able to set up a dns, and transferred the tld-root file, and it seems to work. But where is the 'social network', that is told to be the more important part?

What I couldn't find out yet is where everybody is, and how can I make a new tld.

So, do we deserve liberty yet?

:rolleyes:

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Another Tier 2 server
By ced, Section Miscellaneous
Posted on Mon Feb 27th, 2006 at 10:13:22 AM PST
News
ip : 83.217.93.246
OS : Linux/Gentoo
Named : bind 9.2.5
Connection : 3.3Mbit Downstream - 512kbit upstream
email : admin@ced.homedns.org
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New home for OSS
By Shdwdrgn, Section TLD: .oss
Posted on Sun Feb 12th, 2006 at 09:16:46 PM PST
Technical
OSS has been moved to a new root server this week.  Its new home is at ns2.opennic.glue.  I will be doing my best to verify the existance of currently listed domains and clean up those which no longer exist.

Please feel free to contact me if you have any problems connecting to OSS domains, or if you own a domain which currently has no content but you wish to ensure that the records are retained.

Comments >>

Another Tier 2 server
By ced, Section Miscellaneous
Posted on Fri Dec 30th, 2005 at 02:42:53 PM PST
Miscellaneous
ip : 83.217.93.246
OS : Linux/Gentoo
named : bind 9.2.5
connection : 3.3Mbit Downstream - 512kbit upstream
email : adm@ced.homedns.org
Comments >>

Inclusion of new ICANN TLDs
By ke6isf, Section Policies
Posted on Fri Dec 30th, 2005 at 04:00:28 AM PST
Policies
Several new top level domains have gone live recently in the ICANN world, so as such, the time has come to call this to a vote to see into including them.
(10 comments, 79 words in story) Full Story

Dropping AlterNIC and PacRoot
By Arkady, Section Policies
Posted on Wed Dec 21st, 2005 at 04:20:33 AM PST
Votes

Dennis informs me that PacRoot's servers (at least those we know about) have all gone silent, with the last one no longer answering on port 53.

AlterNIC disappeared some time ago as well.

(4 comments, 151 words in story) Full Story

opennic.glue not resolving
By aksis, Section Ask OpenNIC
Posted on Tue Mar 8th, 2005 at 08:39:08 PM PST
Technical
opennic.glue is not resolving, yet www.opennic.glue and scoop.opennic.glue both do. Other TLDs also resolve.

Because of this I am unable to send any email to the discussion list, though I am reciving it.

I am running FreeBSD-4.10 & Bind 8
I start bind thusly:
/usr/sbin/named -u bind -g bind -t /etc/namedb/ /etc/named.conf

named.conf snip:

#zone "." IN {
#       type hint;
#       file "/master/named.root";
#};

zone "." IN {
        type slave;
        file "tld-root";
        masters { 209.21.75.51; 66.78.7.1; 209.104.33.250; };
};
http://idea-anvil.net/namedb/named.conf
http://idea-anvil.net/namedb/tld-root

This is the ip of the dns server: 63.226.12.96
The goal is a Tier 1 server.

-C. Rhodes (C_R6)

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Another Tier 2 server
By aksis, Section Miscellaneous
Posted on Sun Feb 13th, 2005 at 08:13:51 PM PST
News
ip: 63.226.12.96
OS: FreeBSD 4.10-release
named: Bind 9.*
connection: DSL 1.5mbps/1.0mbps (down/up)
email: admin[at]idea-anvil.net
irc: irc.freenode.net #OpenNIC
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.geek needs a new maintainer
By simkin, Section TLD: .geek
Posted on Fri Jan 14th, 2005 at 07:46:41 PM PST
Miscellaneous
I am no longer interested in maintaining the .geek TLD or operating name servers for OpenNIC.  There is no one particular reason for this, I just have a lot else going on and there doesn't seem to be any point to continuing, as I'm not prepared to work much on improving .geek or OpenNIC (and haven't really been for some time).

Therefore, I ask that volunteers for the position step forward and the membership vote or whatever needs to be done to select a successor.

I will maintain the TLD as usual until the membership can agree on a new maintainer, or until March 1, 2005, whichever comes first.

I will ensure an orderly transition of the registration data and zone information, either to the new maintainer if there is one, or else to Robin.

The following nameserver resources will also be removed on or after March 1, 2005:

  Tier 1 server ns6.opennic.glue
  Tier 1 server ns7.opennic.glue
  Tier 2 server ns2.ca.opennic.glue

For those interested in maintaining the .geek TLD:

There are currently 201 domains registered in .geek.  Of those, 83 actually serve at least an SOA record for the domain from at least one of their registered name servers.  That still makes .geek by far the most popular of the OpenNIC TLD's, however.

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