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This is an old revision of JoiningOpenNIC made by BrianKoontz on 2007-07-21 08:41:22.
Membership in the OpenNIC is open to any natural person (lawyer-speak for "no corporations; actual physical people only") who uses the Internet. Membership carries with it the right to full information about the OpenNIC and the right to vote on, or bring to vote, any general membership issue. At the moment, membership is completely free though, to be equally honest, at some point it will probably become necessary to charge a fee. Running a stable and reliable DNS system can get into some serious money.
The OpenNIC is a user-governed, democratic domain name system and, when we finish getting the incorporation organized, will in time be entirely user-owned as well. To take advantage of this, you need to join OpenNIC as a member. Click on the link below to sign up as an OpenNIC member. Accepting membership through this form constitutes a statement that you accept (but not necessarily that you agree with) the existing OpenNICPolicies OpenNIC policies.
In order to join the OpenNIC you must 1) be able to resolve OpenNIC domain names (the registration system is on www.opennic.glue), and 2) install the OpenNIC SSL certificate (the registration system is also on a secure server). To learn how to resolve OpenNIC domain names, click ConfiguringYourComputer here. To install the OpenNIC SSL certificate, click here.
If you are ready to procede then...
The OpenNIC offers to the membership two MailingLists mailing lists (Announce and Discuss ). All decisions are made on the Discussion list, so if you want to contribute, that's the list to which you should subscribe, particularly if you are a server administrator. The project is moving quickly, so it's easy to drift out of touch is you're not involved in the discussion.
