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 <https://niver.4.niv.re/>
 
+## Status
+
+I plan to create and maintain a public stable instance of Niver, but I haven't done so yet. Thus Niver is not yet tested with real world and long-term usages, and **should be considered alpha software**.
+
 ## Detailed features
 
 ### Public suffix registry (`reg`)