[gopher] OpenNIC .gopher registrations available

[Matthew Holevinski]

We tend to forget the fugly ones :-)

Matt
On Jan 21, 2017 1:06 AM, "Bradley D. Thornton" <Bradley at northtech.us> wrote:

>
>
> 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> 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-atten
>> tion.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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