.FCN Free Community Network (Re: Shared vs. Exclusive)

[tor@wtv.net (Bob Allisat)]

Aveek Datta wrote:
>I recieved your earlier offer, and I'm sure you have good intentions, but
>as someone who deals with the individuals and small businesses that use free
>domains, I can tell you that they as much as anyone else wants a *good*
>short name. .FCN might make perfect sense to you but the great majority of
>users want a free TLD suffix which actually resembles a word. In any case
>for now I'm working directly with Pierre of EU.ORG to implement a working
>shared registry between second level domains because we do not believe in
>creating fake TLDs, even for experimental purposes. We will post the results
>of our creation in a few months and if it works well probably submit a
>proposal to IAHC about it.
>
>For now the decision has been made to work on it as a closed project; I read
>the old shared-tld mailing list and though many interesting points were made
>there, like most TLD mailing lists there was more arguing and less doing.
>The time has come to actually implement something and then fix it from
>there, rather than argue in theory.

 For the record... I have been
 involved in community networking
 for some years. And that .FCN
 stands for "Free Community
 Network". FCN seeks to serve
 any and all comnets with free
 or highly low cost Domain names,
 registries, intial support etc.

 I have put forward .FCN as an
 attempt to wedge a charitable
 new TLD in the rush and stake a
 claim now for what must be
 thousands of Community Networks
 worldwide. I am interested only
 in securing a place for the poor,
 the disadvantaged, political and
 social outcasts, my people - me.

   <http://www.fcn.net>

                             Bob Allisat

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