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.NAME at a Crossroads

Posted by michael on from the name-of-the-beast dept.

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."

2 of 289 comments (clear)

  1. Does anyone have one? by krony · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Seriously, does anybody here actually have a .name TLD for their website? More specifically, do you have a .name without the corresponding .net, .com, or .org?

  2. No surprise? by Jugalator · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I think this post summarizes the outstanding problems well.

    Two points from that post:

    - .NAME is a TLD targetted for individuals, but priced for organizations, even if .NAME DNS requests should be far less common than .COM lookups.

    - .NAME in your e-mail let spammers easily detect individuals, merely by looking in a phone book and putting an @ between the forename and surname, and finally applying .NAME.

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