Why

comes in a few parts (I said it was long right?)Part 1 "How is it Free?": I'm operating all the basic plans probably on the same server, or a small group of servers, so they'll essentially be shared between a bunch of different micronations. This kind of setup is exceptionally cheap for me to setup and administer, because they'll all be using WordPress Multisite. This is also the reason I'm trying to gauge interest now, because it's really only a viable plan if multiple micronations are interested in this setup.Part 2 "How the Basic Plan Works": Here's how the "basic" plan will work exactly: Essentially we'll create a wildcard record for your ccTLD (we'll use .xx as an example from here on out), pointing *.xx to our hosting provider, which will provide a WordPress Multisite instance for you to administer. That will allow you to spin up new websites using whatever domains you want from within the dashboard. The drawbacks to this setup is that all websites need to be hosted on the WordPress install, and it doesn't allow citizens to create websites on your TLD if that's something you want. (Although, you will technically be able to open your WordPress dashboard to the public, which is allowed and I'll try to support you with it if you can, it'll just require a bit of trust in your citizens--but it should be secure). The free plan is very limited in functionality, and that's very intentional: It's the only setup that'll allow me to provide these services at no cost. If you want more you can either set it up yourself and get added for free, which I'd be happy to support, or pay a monthly fee for dedicated servers and a custom setup. This basic plan is basically an alternative to the cookie-cutter Wix (and similar) sites I see on here a lot with non-professional .wixsites.com domains (not that there's anything wrong with them, it'd just look more professional)Part 3 "is it Free?": To be honest, this is all a play to get more content and adoption for FreeNIC. I'm trying to get FreeNIC founded on the basis of privacy-respecting DNS and custom top-level domains, and the latter part especially won't take off if there isn't existing content to serve as an example. I'm hoping to use this community as a resource to get people like you to create content on this network, and advertise our servers to your citizens so they're able to access your sites, for example. In return, the benefit for the micronation community is twofold: (1) the basic infrastructure is already in place, and I'm providing all this for free so there's little barrier to entry, and (2) possibly more importantly, if everybody unites under NationDNS to create custom sites and ccTLDs for their micronations, all these sites will be accessible to each other under a single configuration, there won't be a configuration for Country X and another for Country Y people have to choose between, which would likely be the case if micronations decided to develop this technology independently from one another. The less fragmentation, the better.Part 4 "Why micronations?": I was introduced to the idea of micronational top-level domains by (don't laugh) the Kingdom of Catan on the New Nations discussion board (New Nations is a similar project, but they're pretty much defunct at this point). While that ultimately uh... fell through (okay, now you can laugh), it showed me that micronations are the perfect use-case for an alternative DNS system like this.