.furry - A Top-Level Domain for Furries

.furry —— 兽迷专属顶级域名

The Pitch: Furries make the internet go, and we need infrastructure that belongs to us. You may remember around 2012 that there were suddenly more ways for our websites to end, including .social, .engineering, and the ever popular .dog. We believe the time has come to add .furry to this esteemed list. These endings are called generic Top Level Domains (gTLD for short). ICANN, the organization in charge of this canonical list, has begun the process of creating a new wave of gTLDs.

项目介绍：兽迷（Furries）推动了互联网的发展，我们需要属于我们自己的基础设施。你可能还记得 2012 年左右，我们的网站后缀突然多了起来，包括 .social、.engineering 以及广受欢迎的 .dog。我们认为，现在是时候将 .furry 加入到这个尊贵的列表中了。这些后缀被称为通用顶级域名（简称 gTLD）。负责管理这一权威列表的组织 ICANN，已经启动了新一轮 gTLD 的创建流程。

Getting a new TLD approved is an expensive affair — on the order of $250,000. That’s where we have good news. Our hackerspace and non-profit, Pawprint Prototyping, has been accepted to a new program ICANN has introduced called the Applicant Support Program (ASP). This program aims to provide access to smaller organizations like us, who would normally be unable to participate in gTLD creation due to prohibitive expense. Under this program, a large majority of the typical fees are waived.

获得一个新的顶级域名（TLD）批准是一项昂贵的工程，费用高达 25 万美元左右。但我们有一个好消息：我们的黑客空间及非营利组织 Pawprint Prototyping 已被 ICANN 推出的“申请人支持计划”（ASP）录取。该计划旨在为像我们这样的小型组织提供机会，因为我们通常会因高昂的费用而无法参与 gTLD 的创建。在该计划下，大部分常规费用将被免除。

Which may leave you asking why we’re crowdfunding. The ASP reduces gTLD application fees by 75%. We’re raising $90,000 to cover the remaining application fees, legal costs, and operational expenses required to bring .furry to life. 100% of the profit from .furry will be used to fund: Furry and LGBTQIA+ organizations and spaces; the ongoing educational mission of our non-profit hackerspace; and future development focused on digital sovereignty within our community.

这可能会让你产生疑问：既然如此，为什么我们还要众筹？ASP 将 gTLD 的申请费用降低了 75%。我们筹集 9 万美元是为了支付剩余的申请费、法律成本以及让 .furry 落地所需的运营开支。.furry 产生的 100% 利润将用于资助：兽迷及 LGBTQIA+ 组织与空间；我们非营利黑客空间的持续教育使命；以及专注于社区数字主权的未来发展。

Why .furry? “Furry” has always been a part of the internet. Before the World Wide Web even existed, we were finding our own niches in MUDs, Usenet, and IRC. Our goal with .furry is to cement our place in the foundations of the internet while providing a domain that our community can congregate within. Over time, the internet has grown more and more centralized and commoditized. Communities that previously found a home on the internet have been increasingly marginalized — forced to hop from platform to platform, bending to the whims of those seeking to profit from their engagement.

为什么选择 .furry？“兽迷”文化一直是互联网的一部分。甚至在万维网出现之前，我们就已经在 MUD、Usenet 和 IRC 中找到了属于自己的空间。我们推出 .furry 的目标是巩固我们在互联网基础中的地位，同时提供一个让社区成员能够聚集的域名。随着时间的推移，互联网变得越来越中心化和商品化。曾经在互联网上找到归属感的社区正日益被边缘化——被迫在不同平台间流转，屈从于那些试图从他们的参与中获利的人。

Who We Are: We are Pawprint Prototyping (aka Totally Legit Agency), Santa Clara’s premiere furry hackerspace. We are a collection of hackers, artists, makers, and tinkerers with a mission to foster creative endeavors and the hacker community at large. We have been accepted into ICANN’s Applicant Support Program and are applying to operate the .furry top-level domain. We believe we are uniquely suited as a technology-driven and community-rooted organization to make .furry a reality.

我们是谁：我们是 Pawprint Prototyping（又名 Totally Legit Agency），圣克拉拉首屈一指的兽迷黑客空间。我们是一群黑客、艺术家、创客和修补匠，使命是促进创意事业和整个黑客社区的发展。我们已被 ICANN 的申请人支持计划录取，并正在申请运营 .furry 顶级域名。作为一家以技术为驱动、以社区为根基的组织，我们相信自己有独特的能力让 .furry 成为现实。