Proposal to offer *.social.coop as an unofficial TLD/domain name for social cooperatives

Problem: Registering a .coop domain name is quite expensive and also bureaucratically difficult, especially for newly formed co-ops and coop-style collectives. Also standard domains like .org are often not available.

Solution: Social.coop can become an unofficial registrar and offer *.social.coop domain names for organisations that meet certain criteria for entry (to be defined). These organisations/collectives would also become a member of social.coop, contributing on OpenCollective, with a Mastodon account, and one vote through a member representative.

Example: I'm a member/volunteer of Khora, a really awesome community centre for refugees in Athens, which is run as a non-hierarchical non-profit cooperative: http://www.khora-athens.org/ which you can read about on our wiki: http://wiki.khora.social.coop/Khora:About (notice how the wiki is using the khora.social.coop domain name as an example, which I will change in case this proposal doesn't pass).

What does everyone think? I'll create a poll to see if there's consensus on the general idea, but I think we'll need to work out the criteria and figure out how easy it will be to implement and manage technically before making a final decision.