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TERMS

September 19th, 2006 by Cedric

Terms of Use

  1. These terms are subject to change and modification
  2. No part of this web site or external literature is meant to be a promise of services or products, and does not obligate us in any way
  3. We will work to provide free use any domain to anyone; however the Open Domain program may not be available in all areas, due to regional laws and regulations, or due to technical concerns.
  4. We may not be held liable for any damages for any reason, including networking or programmatic issues that may hinder the use of some domains.
  5. The domain should be used by a group most closely associated to the context of its name
  6. The domain must be actively marketed and significantly used
    1. Periodic content changes
    2. Regular submission to search engines
    3. You can not just create a ‘doorway portal’ with no actual content
  7. Only one domain may be used per group
  8. We would like a link on all pages
    1. The link must be predominate and visible
    2. The link must be part of the original HTML document and not generated by client side script (JavaScript)
    3. All outbound links must be marked with the nofollow attribute. For example, all anchor tags should have rel=”nofollow” in their markup. This does NOT include the link to OpenDomain.Org
  9. NO Pop-ups
  10. NO automatic re-direction to other sites
  11. NO objectionable content
    1. No adult material
    2. No defamatory comments
  12. No posting of copyrighted material without proper license or written permission
  13. NO SPAM
  14. Your rights to use any domain end automatically if you breach these terms in any way.
  15. Neither OpenDomain nor any person working for the project will be liable for any of those types of damages known as indirect, special, consequential, incidental, punitive or exemplary related to the use of the domain, to the maximum extent the law permits, no matter what legal theory it’s based on.
  16. If any term of this Agreement is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid or unenforceable, then this Agreement, including all of the remaining terms, will remain in full force and effect as if such invalid or unenforceable term had never been included.
  17. This Agreement shall be construed and enforced in accordance with the laws of the state of Pennsylvania, USA.

10 Responses to “TERMS”

  1. on 24 Mar 2007 at 12:05 am   compuman2153

    I agree to the terms of use how do I register?

  2. on 30 Mar 2007 at 7:49 am   Brian Rockwell

    How is it that you can play god over internet domains?

  3. on 02 Apr 2007 at 11:19 pm   Ian

    HOW DO I REGISTER?

  4. on 21 Apr 2007 at 8:00 am   Cedric

    Brian,

    I am in charge of OpenDomain because I spent my time personal money to buy these domains from squatters so I can help out Open Groups. Of course I need some terms so my contribution does not get abused. Can you clarify what your spefic problem is?

    Your _constructive_ input would be appreciated!

  5. on 29 Apr 2007 at 4:40 pm   cats

    hiya,
    We want a domain but when we try and register you need an iname which costs money so how do you get a free domain?

  6. on 03 Jun 2007 at 1:28 pm   Mike Donaghy

    It is nice for you to run this service for free …
    But it seems that some of these terms hamper the progress of a site , it seems that someone using one of your Domains for his/her Own Server must change the content of their site for the Domain Name … That the journalistic quality of the site will be degraded because they were forced to , “Sell Their Soul To You” , for the effective cost of $6.95 … I agree that it is your service to do what you will , but this Certainly is not an open source mindset that you have , but after all this is the internet …
    what do I know ?

  7. on 29 Aug 2007 at 3:07 pm   Troy

    “All outbound links must be marked with the nofollow attribute. For example, all anchor tags should have rel=”nofollow” in their markup. This does NOT include the link to OpenDomain.Org”

    -As I understand it, this effectively means search engines will see opendomain.org as the ONLY outbound link from websites, giving all your SEO weight to opendomain and none to the other sites you’ve linked to. Not good!

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  10. on 07 Mar 2009 at 5:51 pm   Joel

    Hi can someone help me get a free domain and possibly a link to a really good host.
    I am concerned about how FREE , “FREE” really is. I am trying forever to get get a FREE domain but get trash… if this is going to work please say SO i’ll be glad to run this link. But Terms have to Also apply for the users since we are what you need and open in never open until some amount of freedom is established. Lets have some unbiased terms please. To save the users and Cedric.
    Whats this I hear about “buying” iname …do you have to spend any money here, else this is not free. I need a Site for Video Tutorials site will host a university based engineering community not excluding foreign counterparts, most of their stuff would be Open Source, video tutorials,training etc.

    I really need this Domain can anyone help me here?

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