• If you are interested in volunteering to help with one of the working groups below, please contact the group coordinator.

• ArchitectureWG
• AuditingWG
• HostmasteringWG
• PublicRelationsWG
• WebmasteringWG
• TranslationES TranslationWG

• TLDPolicy TLD Governing Policy
• MailingListPolicy Maling List Policy
• HostmasteringPolicies HostmastingWG operating policy

• CreatingNewTLDs Proposing and Creating new TLDs through OpenNIC
• AnOpenNICProject Running an OpenNIC Related Project

• FAQ OpenNIC FAQ
• Drafts OpenNIC Draft Area

What is OpenNIC?

OpenNIC is a user controlled Network Information Center offering a democratic, non-national, alternative to the traditional Top-Level Domain registries. In case you were looking for them, traditonal TLDs are currently served by Network Solutions with policies set by ICANN.

Use of OpenNIC DNS servers, will allow host name resolution in LegacyDNS the Legacy U.S. Government DNS, SponsoredTLDs OpenNIC operated namespaces, and those namespaces with which the OpenNIC has peering agreements.

This wiki...

...is an access controlled work area for OpenNIC working groups (WGs). In accordance with OpenNIC's open access philosophy, working group notes are world-readable. Write access to the various WG areas is however limited only to participants (in order to provide a high signal-to-noise ratio). For more information on how to use this wiki, see: WikiCategory first, and then: CategoryWiki.

How you can help...

There are three OpenNIC projects currently under review:

• New public website - PrivateWebsite Project Page
• Run by WebmasteringWG
• New private website - PublicWebsite Project Page
• Run by WebmasteringWG
• Open domain registration Software - OpenNICRegistration Project Page
• Run by ArchitectureWG

To volunteer assistance with any of these tasks, please enter your name on the relevant project page, then make contact with other team members! These and other 'side projects' are listed at OpenNIC Projects. Once the above tasks are near completion, more will be posted. NB Project areas are currently limited in order to allow timeous forward progress. Should you perchance have ideas for future projects though, please, do get in touch. We are always open to suggestions.