@@=====Joining OpenNIC=====@@

Membership in 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 OpenNIC and the right to vote on, or bring to vote, any general membership issue. Membership is completely free.

OpenNIC is a user-governed and user-owned democratic domain name system. To take full advantage of this, you should 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 OpenNIC you must be able to resolve OpenNIC domain names.
@@[[http://www.opennicproject.org/members/ | Click here to join OpenNIC]]@@
The username and password you choose are used to sign in to most OpenNIC services.
After joining OpenNIC, please subscribe to the OpenNIC Discuss mailing list [[MailingLists | here]].

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OpenNIC stores your password only in encrypted form. This means that if you forget your password there is no way for us to recover it. Please take care not to forget your password.
Thank you for joining OpenNIC and for supporting democratic namespace management.
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