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General Information
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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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By aangel, Section Ask OpenNIC
Posted on Wed Jan 12th, 2005 at 05:47:27 AM PST
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I've been visiting several Wiki sites lately, and have even installed a Wiki of my own to play around with it. Essentially, a Wiki is a web site edited by its visitors--this has quite a few implications that may benefit the OpenDNS community.
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By compuparker86, Section Ask OpenNIC
Posted on Mon Oct 11th, 2004 at 05:39:44 PM PST
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Microsoft's MSN Explorer is the default browser where I work, and policy restrictions prevent use of any other browser. It does not appear to allow access to OpenNIC TLDs even though the DNS server is setup to resolve them. If a link within a page is used to access the TLD, it works fine, but you cannot type the address in the address bar, as you are immediately redirected to the search page. Can anything be done about this? I am stumpped as to why Microsoft's MSN Explorer would not allow this, the Internet Explorer appears to have a similar problem, so I use Mozilla at home, but I cannot do this at work. Can anything be done by me to solve this?
Jason A. Parker
compuparker86@msn.com
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By aksis, Section Ask OpenNIC
Posted on Fri Sep 17th, 2004 at 12:16:56 AM PST
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If we want OpenNIC to be recognised globaly, why not get the Bind people to supply tld-root.txt with its distros rather then trying to get ICANN to recognise us?
Seeing as how alot of ISPs use Bind, if Bind were to supply tld-root as the hint file by default, then the ISP's would just start using our root servers.
Also seeing as how OpenNIC already encompasses ICANNs root servers the only question is: Is OpenNIC stable enough to handel such a responsability at this point? If not yet, what steps need to be taken and how long will it take?
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By aksis, Section Miscellaneous
Posted on Fri Sep 17th, 2004 at 12:08:23 AM PST
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This might be seen as a little premature of me (seeing as how I am very new to OpenNIC), but I have created an IRC channel on irc.freenode.net #OpenNIC for near real time chat on the topics of OpenNIC and prehaps to offer support. (The support part would have to come from people who knows more about OpenNIC the I do untill I get more familuar with it).
Freenode is the open source communities irc network. It is well run and will make a great place for an irc channel like this.
I will be adding any one running a Tier 1 or 2 server to the channel admin list (ops list) anyone interested in joining, just join.
As I'm not sure how to call for a vote yet :-) I propose that #OpenNIC on irc.freenode.net be the official IRC support channel for OpenNIC
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dealing with inactive TLDs
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By Arkady, Section Policies
Posted on Fri Jul 9th, 2004 at 07:12:51 PM PST
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OK folks, this is essentially a re-hash of the .biz issue but I think we need to change the policies on this. Right now, OpenNIC policy is that the first functioning operator (i.e. with at least one registration other than the operator) of a TLD has the legitimate authority for a TLD. While this is good, I suggest that we need to make one minor change to it.
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By lexi, Section Miscellaneous
Posted on Sat Jun 19th, 2004 at 09:57:42 PM PST
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hi!
i've set up a tier 2 nameserver at 62.75.254.22 (momo3.bubbl.net)
location is germany, duesseldorf
may be used freely by everyone
btw: how much load/traffic do tier 2 servers have? and.. few of the listed tier 2 servers are down..
greetings, lexi
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By sungo, Section TLD: .oss
Posted on Fri May 14th, 2004 at 01:11:22 PM PST
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none of the .oss root servers are responding nor is the listed registry responding. as such, this tld should be removed until such time as the original administrator appears to get things going again or a new home can be found.
along those lines, i would be ammenable to taking over the .oss tld if the current administrator would be willing for such a transfer to take place.
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OpenNIC root name server load
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By lussmu, Section Ask OpenNIC
Posted on Wed Apr 28th, 2004 at 10:21:12 AM PST
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Hello!
I am an eager OpenNICer from Helsinki, Finland and my office's Internet connection has spare bandwidth. I am wondering if the OpenNIC project would have a need for a new root name server? If so, could anyone tell in what estimates the bandwidth and machine requirements are? 256..512..1m?
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By rhonda, Section Forum Site
Posted on Sat Apr 24th, 2004 at 05:26:56 AM PST
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Well, that was a rather long downtime.
But, the member's forum is back and better than ever - it got a major upgrade to the latest shiny new code, and there are a whole pile of new features as well.
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Using opennic w/o using opennic as root
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By jroysdon, Section Ask OpenNIC
Posted on Thu Jun 26th, 2003 at 06:16:52 AM PST
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Has anyone come up with a simple way to use opennic DNS w/o using the opennic DNS servers for root [.]?
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