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@Tadano @sjw Be warned that if you use a VPN, Tor, or proxy then you automatically use their DNS settings, no matter what your local DNS settings are. The OpenNIC website does have a proxy for browsing OpenNIC sites last time I checked.
Also, I think @ryo tried to purchase an OpenNIC domain for his site but he couldn't find anyone to buy from.
The GNU Project also has their own DNS root now.
https://www.gnunet.org/en/gns.html
@ryo @Tadano @sjw The only OpenNIC site I ever knew of was some really obscure imageboard that was just one of the many bunkers after the original 8chan shutdown. It never caught on because nobody could figure out how to configure their DNS settings, even though most modern OSes (including Windows) allows you to easily change your main DNS server in the control panel.
OpenNIC has been around since 2000, but it was always obscure. I think people never saw the need for it because darknets have been around for the same amount of time and pretty much served the same purpose, but were and are superior options.
Then it got leaked and now it's public domain blablabla, I don't know the details, so it's basically a theory I just came up with.
OpenNIC, Tor, I2P, XMPP, it's almost as if they could see the writing on the wall, and produced the last bits of software to avoid all the dystopian crap we're seeing being produced today.