[2] 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.

[19] New Nations provides TLDs for nation-states that are not recognized by the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 standard, and therefore haven't received their own ccTLD.

[21] On January 15, 2015, domains registered in Emercoin's blockchain became accessible to all users of OpenNIC DNS.

In July 2019, the OpenNIC community voted 13-2 for dropping support for .bit domains due to them "being used as malware hubs" as a result of their "anonymous nature".