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Can someone explain what this is, to someone who has never heard of the .name tld before?
by subarctic 14d ago
Can someone explain what this is, to someone who has never heard of the .name tld before?
- wmf 14d agoInstead of registering your.name you would register first.last.name (nobody owned last.name). This was intended to allow more people to have personal domains with fewer conflicts. Now, years later, they are undoing it and they're even breaking existing domains. ("existing third level domain names will be terminated") This kind of breaking change shouldn't be allowed.
- mr_toad 14d agoI guess they assume that nobody with a personal domain cares enough to sue them over this.
- iminatx 12d agoI have one. I'm honestly not sure whether my registration will be refunded or not--the email I got from my registrar said that this is expected to happen but the details are yet to be worked out, while at the same time Verisign's own public statements don't even touch on the point that there will be services paid for and unrendered. My guess is it would be hard for me to substantiate damages in excess of the actual registration fees, which in my case will amount to some $93 or so once prorated. It's sort of the perfect number: just high enough to be insulting, just low enough not to be worth chasing adversarially.
- badgersnake 14d agoI currently have firstnamelastname.name which I use. I’m thinking I need to switch after this.
- LawnGnome 14d agoSame. That would be an ugly transition for me, but I guess I should start thinking about it.
- jnwatson 14d agoThey are cancelling 3rd level domains, not the 2-level domain you have.
- dpoloncsak 14d agoSets a bad precedent though, right?
- badgersnake 13d agoExactly
- subarctic 14d agoWait, if it was only firstname.lastname.name, how was he able to register firstnamelastname.name? Does it let you register 2nd level domains if you get there before someone else registers a 3rd level domain that uses the 2nd level domain that you want to register?
- CodesInChaos 13d agoThey altered the deal. Now they are altering it further.
- johnplatte 13d agoI don't know the history of when the offerings were available, but I initially bought my-first-name.my-rare-last-name.name, and fortunately nobody else bought another-name.my-rare-last-name.name, and I was able to let mine lapse then buy my-rare-last-name.name.
- iminatx 13d agoThe status quo is that the registry proactively reserves a large list of 2LDs corresponding to attested personal names and surnames, making them unavailable for registration. One can register 3LDs underneath these. It will also reserve a 2LD reactively if someone wants to register a 3LD underneath it. Or, if a 2LD is not on the reserved list, someone can register it outright. As far as I know the list of reserved 2LDs is not available, but you can query individual names via whois to see if they are reserved or not.
- vidarh 14d agoMost critically, the intent was to offer email forwarding at lastname.name, so you could also get email at firstname@lastname.name. That was the starting point - we started as a webmail provider letting people share lastname.sometld domains Without that, it's just another name.