.NAME at a Crossroads

An anonymous reader writes "It seems the .NAME registry is at a crossroads. They say that things are going far from well, and so they have started their own registrar that is going to try to market .NAME domains to individuals, unlike all other registrars. If they don't manage, this will be the first gTLD to go bankrupt. I guess that will put a damper on any plans to introduce more new TLDs."

Comments

Well,...

[ksheka]

...what's in a name?

(OK, someone had to say it. :-)

Re:Well,...

[Xandar01]

> ...what's in a name?

A .com load of debt?

I want this URL

[addaboy]

http://whats.my.name/bitch or http://say.my.name/bitch

to market the .name tld?

[_anomaly_]

maybe it's just me, but i saw a bunch of marketing from my registrar (register.com) for the .name tld.

so much, in fact, that i went ahead and registered mine... and haven't done a thing with it since (it's been probably almost 2 years now maybe). this is mainly due to the fact that i'm lazy and not sure what to do with it... but still seems to be the norm for the .name tld.

We then need a new gTLD

[spacefight]

.bankrupt

nuff said

Anonymous.Coward.name

[Fulkkari]

No one seem to have registered Anonymous Coward, even though Slashdots seems to be full of people with this name. How is this possible? You would think that at least one of these several hundred Cowards would register with their name. Things must be going really bad for .name...

Re:Anonymous.Coward.name

[random_rabbit]

That reminds me. Last night my girlfriend said "I think that this Anonymous Coward guy spends far too much time on this site. He's all over it".

I wanted to agree, but I was too busy getting beaten for laughing at her.

Re:I'm too late

[FearUncertaintyDoubt]

My name has already gone so I couldn't have it even if I wanted it.

I know how you feel. I got muscled out by that guy John Jacob Jingle Heimer Schmidt. His .name is my .name too.

Gee, why *IS* it failing?

[Asprin]

It looks like they left off a reason why sales are slow: because it's a stupid idea!

How many people really want a personalized email domain that maps directly to your real name, cannot be changed and therefore says "HEY, SPAMMERS, I'M OVER HERE AND I DON'T GET ENOUGH CRAP IN MY EMAIL!!!!!"

I don't know what bothers me more - that they thought it was a good idea to begin with or that they think it just isn't being marketed well enough.

BTW, I *fully* expect that before they cash out and go home, we'll hear that they tried to market their customer database to spammers, not realizing that a 1 line perl script could generate a list of valid addresses of the form 'john@smith.name'.

What a bunch of maroons!

the.site.with.no.name

[wowbagger]

the.site.with.no.name - be a good Spagetti Western homage site.

theyve.given.me.a.number.and.taken.away.my.name - The Prisoner and Secret Agent Man homage site.

went.through.the.desert.on.a.horse.with.no.name - fan site for the band America.

a.policeman.knew.my.name - Site for The Who.

Re:I have my own .name domain

[clarkcox3]

It would be a shame if it folded, but since I mainly bought these as "vanity" domains and don't publicise them, I wouldn't be too upset if .name went away ...

You call posting to /. "not publicizing"? :)