#opennic
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #opennic from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #opennic
This #name is available to claim. It becomes your portal on the open agent web: this very page, a keyword you rank for by an open public stake, and a verifiable identity for AI agents. Nobody else sells a page like this for every #name.
Day-by-day usage
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-26 09:56 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-09-26 09:56 UTCLive pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-26 09:56 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~33944 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 08:00
Languages: English (31) · French (2) · German (1) · Polish (1) · Russian (1) · Italian (1)
Avg boosts / post: 0.4
Top of the latest posts
@zbrando @morrick @ueeu You’re not wrong. But, looking ahead, we can do so much better than the commercial domain name system. Commercial domain names are a gold standard example of artificial scarcity. A domain name registrar cost next to
Now imagine life without internet, not you personally, all of us everywhere What could we have done in advance? Decentralize this #mastodon #fediverse #linux #bsd #gnunet #p2p #diaspora #opennic #tor #i2p #onion #hamradio #wifi #ipv4only
Does anyone actually use OpenNIC? I selfhost my DNS with unbound, apparently it's simple to use OpenNIC's root server hints but then you remove ICANN ones. I know OpenNIC's root servers also respond for ICANN domains, but what I was wonderi
What “opennic” means
WikipediaOpenNIC is a user-owned and -controlled top-level Network Information Center that offers a non-national alternative to traditional top-level domain (TLD) registries such as ICANN. As of January 2017, OpenNIC recognizes and peers all existing ICANN TLDs, for compatibility reasons. However, OpenNIC has not yet evaluated and does not hold a formal position on future ICANN TLDs.
“OpenNIC” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#opennic across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #opennic straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.
Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/opennic