[gopher] OpenNIC .gopher registrations available

[Bradley D. Thornton]

On 12/3/2016 9:44 AM, Brian Koontz wrote:
>
> 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.
>

When I still provided The PacificRoot as a forward facing public 
service, as well as providing the zone data for several other competing 
Inclusive Roots at the time, we developed a couple of different plugins 
for the OS which, in once case, was merely a .reg file for wYNd0z3 OSes 
that adjusted the DNS servers in the system resolver to use nameservers 
resolving the Inclusive Name Space.

With a little .shtml and cgi magic, once the colliding .biz TLD was 
introduced by neulevel and ICANN (the antichrist), A query to the the 
namespace within .biz would, at the DNS provider level, offer up a web 
page requesting the surfer to decide which of the two colliding .biz 
TLDS (the original, managed by ARNI, or the pretender, championed by 
ICANN) they wanted to resolve in the name space.

It worked fine, but you couldn't switch without some effort. We were 
working on merging all of the non-colliding SLDs within those two name 
spaces when we decided to defer to the antichrist, and remove the 
original .biz TLD from the root.

I've been a charter member of OpenNIC since before Bill Clinton was 
marinating cigars. BTW, whatever happened to Robin Bandy?

> 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 
> <mailto:mwgamera at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 3 December 2016 at 08:35, James Mills
>     <prologic at shortcircuit.net.au
>     <mailto: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
>     <https://icann.org/namecollision>"
>
>     $ host reg.for.free $(curl -s
>     'https://api.opennicproject.org/geoip/?bare&res=1
>     <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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