[gopher] .gopher domains available on OpenNIC

[Christoph Lohmann]

Hello.

On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 07:57:34 +0200 Brian Koontz <brian at pongonova.net> wrote:
> Help out the OpenNIC project (and gain some exposure to your
> gopherhole) by registering a .gopher domain at register.gopher.
> OpenNIC is a free, open, democratic alternative to ICANN that has been
> in existence for over 10 years.  I'm one of the co-founders of the
> "resurrected" OpenNIC project, and also run the .gopher registry, so
> I'd be glad to answer any question or offer any help I can.  And if
> you do register a domain, please drop me a note.

I  registered r36.gopher, but would like to have r‐36.gopher but the do‐
main register form does forbid this.

And why is there this following passage in the charter? 

> Sites hosted on a .gopher domain should not serve content via any other
> protocol.

I  can’t  guarantee  this. This would require a separate IP for just the
gopher server.

> You'll need to be able to resolve OpenNIC TLDs to access
> register.gopher.  (All of OpenNIC's servers resolve both OpenNIC and
> ICANN TLDs.)  Feel free to use my nameserver:
> 
> 66.244.95.20

Is   there   a  way  to list all known .gopher domains? Of course such a
feature should enforce some opt‐in policy, but it would  make  searching
the whole gopherspace easier. Then the whole gopher community could have
a second .gopher domain for all of their servers solely  to  be  on  the
list of searchable servers and it would strengthen opennic.

Another   nice   sideeffect  would  be,  that  it  would allow some easy
scripting for gopher hole tab completion.

	% lynx gopher://<Tab>


Sincerely,

Christoph Lohmann