Non-profit/entity to manage the TLD

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Project for applying for a `.src` gTLD

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Non-profit/entity to manage the TLD #2

Open joallard opened 11 years ago

joallard commented 11 years ago

Individuals are not allowed to apply for a gTLD. It seems to me like a non-profit should be created to manage the TLD.

Some questions:

In what jurisdiction?
What kind of entity?
What kind of statutes would this have?
What are the governance choices we have to make?

This is not my area of expertise so I'll be inclined to hear some more lawyerly folks on this.

cedricdonie commented 10 years ago

How about also asking an established organization (Mozilla, etc) for backing?

arxpoetica commented 10 years ago

joallard commented 10 years ago

I know @ozten had connections at Mozilla; do you think they would be interested? Who could we contact about this?

cedricdonie commented 10 years ago

Mozilla might help us, who knows, but it of course could also be a different organization.

cedricdonie commented 10 years ago

Other open-source organizations would be

FSF
OSI
The Apache Foundation

I'm also thinking that maybe some web-related companies who do contribute to open source could help us. I'm at the moment thinking of something like Google (they'd have influence) or Atomattic (WP.com)?

nirix commented 10 years ago

Could try contacting them. Does anyone have any contacts at those places that could help, or should we send a hearty email to them ourselves asking if they're interested?

ozten commented 10 years ago

There was a lot of passion around .js at high levels, but when we considered alternatives, it deflated a bit. I'll bring up the topic again.

joallard commented 9 years ago

@ozten Any news? It's obviously a long-term project until the gTLD applications re-open. Is there someone we should be in contact with?