Open NIC
OpenNIC is an alternate network information center/alternative DNS root which lists itself as an alternative to ICANN and its registries.
As of 2006 users of the OpenNIC DNS servers are able to resolve all existing ICANN top-level domains as well as their own.
Like all alternative root DNS systems, OpenNIC-hosted domains are unreachable to the vast majority of the Internet. Only specific configuration in one's DNS resolver makes these reachable, and very few Internet service providers have this configuration.
Read more about Open NIC: History, Top Level Domains, Peering, Public Access Information
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