[gopher] OpenNIC .gopher registrations available

[Brian Koontz]

This is correct. OpenNIC incorporates the ICANN root into its own root
files. .free is a recent collider; we haven't decided what we're going to
do at this point. At any rate, OP will have to use OpenNIC servers to
resolve.

That's the point of OpenNIC: It's an alternative to ICANN.
On Dec 3, 2016 8:59 AM, "Kacper Gutowski" <mwgamera at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 3 December 2016 at 08:35, James Mills <prologic at shortcircuit.net.au>
> wrote:
> > I tired to reach this URI from OpenNIC dns servers but also ran into
> > trouble.
> > I run a custom dns servers locally and I'm not completely sure why I kept
> > running in to:
> >
> > $ host reg.for.free
> > reg.for.free has address 127.0.53.53
> > reg.for.free mail is handled by 10 your-dns-needs-immediate-
> attention.free.
>
> Whatever you do, this is the usual result you would get using the regular
> ICANN DNS, not from OpenNIC.  The thing is that "free" is a valid gTLD
> and some of those new gTLDs decided never to give NXDOMAIN for second
> level domains and resolve into the above instead.
>
> $ host -t txt reg.for.free
> reg.for.free descriptive text "Your DNS configuration needs immediate
> attention see https://icann.org/namecollision"
>
> $ host reg.for.free $(curl -s
> 'https://api.opennicproject.org/geoip/?bare&res=1')
> Using domain server:
> Name: 96.90.175.167
> Address: 96.90.175.167#53
> Aliases:
>
> reg.for.free has address 173.160.58.202
> reg.for.free has IPv6 address 2001:470:f032:1::254
>
>
> -k
>
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