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==Alternative Root or Registry Projects==

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Alternative Root Servers have been in existence since 1995, when several groups of Internet users found out that they didn’t have choices other than [[.com]], [[.org]]], and so on. Alt roots can in general be divided into two groups; those run for idealistic or ideological reasons, and those run as profit-making enterprises.

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Alternative Root Servers have been in existence since 1995 when several groups of Internet users found out that they didn’t have choices other than [[.com]], [[.org]]], and so on. Alt roots can in general be divided into two groups; those run for idealistic or ideological reasons, and those run as profit-making enterprises.

* Open Root Server Network (ORSN): A network of root servers in Europe (other than the one run by Paul Vixie in the U.S.) that operated from February 2002 to December 2008. ORSN had 2 operating modes: ICANN-based and the default, independent. The former involved daily synchronization but did not remove TLDs that ICANN; the latter was not automatically synchronized.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20051124020843/http://european.de.orsn.net/faq.php FAQs, ORSN.net, Web Archives Nov. 24, 2005]</ref>

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* Open Root Server Confederation (ORSC):

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* [https://www.open-rsc.org/ Open Root Server Confederation (ORSC)]:

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* OpenNIC ~~Site charter~~

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* OpenNIC: a user-owned and -controlled top-level Network Information Center offering a non-national alternative to traditional Top-Level Domain (TLD) registries.<ref>[https://wiki.opennic.org/ Wiki, OpenNIC]</ref>

* AlterNIC (ANIC)(stopped in 1997)

* eDNS (stopped in 1998??)

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