@tryst
It's a possibility, but I'm not sure we need to start yet another one. #OpenNIC
https://www.opennic.org/

@will
Hearing @bradshoemaker talk about purchasing possible domains and curious if you have plans to talk about TLDs and ICANN and #OpenNIC.org

@blogdiva
#OPENNIC

Looks like there is a Certificate error in the #OpenNIC website (specifically the servers listing page) that the OS cert bundle flags as insecure, but not the Firefox stack. Guess it's worth having a look?

(tested in both Alpine and Debian Linux)

@toby I agree, but how do we regulate #ICANN and the domain registrars? #DNS seems like a natural monopoly, even with #OpenNIC

@PrinceAlarming @zachleat I'm not going to say "big tech" controls your domains. IANA/ICANN technically does but can't/doesn't actually define any rules for content. It's up to the NIC (TLD) and registrar.
Stuff like Handshake isn't much better since the whole system is built on scam tech that doesn't, and can't, respect trademarks or basic rules of morality.
I'd rather #OpenNIC, but there's still authority to trust there too.

So I just read an article on heise about DNS4EU, and they managed to not even name #opennic once even though the risk of censorship is one of the main points of the article.

@shahaan Sadly, yes.

Our primary expression of identity on the web is something we rent from others. Because capitalism.

It should be something that’s free that we own as a human right.

Very easy to implement too, if we wanted to. The EU could easily fund it. We don’t even have to build it, OpenNIC has existed for decades. We could just legislate that browsers must support it in the EU and boom.

https://www.opennic.org/

#domainNames #identity #web #smallWeb #OpenNIC #eu #commons

#askfedi #opennic #federation

@GamePlayer #OpenNIC exists, it's pretty cool, it's got .pirate, .libre, and .foss I think.

The Fediverse is built on top of the "standard" DNS root, although someone could run a Mastodon server that is aware of OpenNIC, and users of that could connect to servers running on OpenNIC domains.

Have you switched to an #OpenNIC #DNS server yet?

#Open, #libre alternative DNS root.

https://www.opennic.org/

Share your domains!

OpenNIC Project https://www.opennic.org/ #censorship #uncensored #democratic #opennic #network #service #server #root #open #free #dns

@alks go #quad9 , go #fdn , go #opennic , it is, by far, a must have if you care about privacy for you and the people around you.

@Pixificial
Cheap devices with low specs, and thus developing areas around the world, wouldn't be able to keep up. Centralisation is not inherently bad, and pure peer-to-peer is not inherently good. Generally, federation is the best of both worlds. A single server on a VPS for a single small website is cost effective.

Making DNS lookups purely peer-to-peer is a great idea, though. We ought to support projects like #opennic and break censorship.

https://opennic.org

Thank you *very* much! Now my #OpenNIC DNS will persist again... like it was back in 2016

https://wiki.debian.org/resolv.conf#Stop_dhclient_from_modifying_.2Fetc.2Fresolv.conf

#resolvconf

Testing a OpenNIC public recursive anycast server^[1]. Speed is good, and I can access .bbs, .gopher, .geek, .pirate, .indy and other fancy TLDs.
For anybody interested in OpenNIC projects, I highly recommend the grep.geek web search engine. #dns #resolver #opennic #free #anycast
[1]185.121.177.177/2a05:dfc7:5::53 (ns1.any.dns.opennic.glue)

@metalune nice! Is it Android or derivative? How did you manage this? If it's easy enough I might make mine use #OpenNIC

¡Qué bueno esto!
Se puede usar #opennic con #avahi agregándolo en:

browse-domains=

direcciones locales para la casa y direcciones sin rastreo para internet :D

@polarisfm@www.librepunk.club #OpenNIC does it for me.

https://servers.opennic.org/

@moonbolt Is it worth the hassle of making it? https://wiki.opennic.org/opennic/creating_new_tlds

Overview:

0. Become an OpenNIC member: https://members.opennicproject.org.
1. Set it up.
2. Prove your commitment to it.
3. Chat to the #opennic people.
4. Propose it on the mailing list.
5. Get a “yes” vote from the committee.
6. Yay! Your TLD is now live for everyone!

Steps 0, 1 and 2 can be done in any order.