apply for .onion gTLD at IANA

getting gTLD at IANA eventually enables hidden services to obtain a free, signed, valid ssl certificate from startssl or any other (non-)free, signed, valid ssl certificate from certificate issuers.

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added SponsorZ-large component::archived/ponies priority::medium resolution::worksforme status::closed type::task labels

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Component: - Select a component to Tor Sysadmin Team

Our sysadmin team should not interpret Runa's assigning this ticket to them as confirmation that we actually want to do this.

Last I checked, it costs six figures in icann protection money to get a new gtld. Sounds pretty silly.

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Milestone: N/A to Sponsor Z: November 1, 2013

who said anything about using ICANN registrars? There are at least four other TLD providers. Granted ICANN has the monopoly right now.

how sure are we that our internal .onion never leaks and will never hit a TLD .onion, say if some black ops/organized crime org bought .onion from ICANN.

.onion was not applied for in the new gTLD program. http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/program-status/application-results/strings-1200utc-13jun12-en

The next time the opportunity will come up is in a couple years. This is good, because maybe they'll have the kinks worked out then.

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Cc: N/A to tom@ritter.vg

Switching from using milestones to keywords for sponsor deliverables. See #6365 (moved) for details.

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Keywords: N/A deleted, SponsorZ added
Milestone: Sponsor Z: November 1, 2013 to N/A

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Component: Tor Sysadmin Team to Ponies

Hah. We have a Ponies component. Awesome. Also, this costs about as much as a full time developer for ~1.25-2 years.

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Keywords: SponsorZ deleted, SponsorZ-large added

This will not be necessary anymore :-)

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Status: new to closed
Resolution: N/A to worksforme
Cc: tom@ritter.vg to tom@ritter.vg, ioerror

The only thing better than Ponies: Free Ponies.

closed

mentioned in issue #6231 (closed)

mentioned in issue #13099 (closed)