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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."

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  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. I want this URL by addaboy · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  3. I'm too late by johnburton · · Score: 5, Insightful

    My name has already gone so I couldn't have it even if I wanted it. There is no point having a variation of it either. I can't imagine how they expect this to succeed. There are far too many people with the same names, You need a proper hierarchy for this kind of thing.

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    1. Re:I'm too late by FearUncertaintyDoubt · · Score: 5, Funny
      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.

  4. We then need a new gTLD by spacefight · · Score: 5, Funny

    .bankrupt

    nuff said

  5. Free the namespace! by Ashurbanipal · · Score: 5, Insightful
    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.
    Hopefully it will only put a damper on plans to introduce stupid TLDs that perpetuate the expensive stranglehold on naming that ICANN enjoys.

    TLDs should be available to anyone who can run a secure, reliable root - this connects profit to performance, so we don't have to rely on the innate goodness of the root nameserver operators. The first thing that'd happen would be that pepsi.com, pepsi.net, and pepsi.org would be obsolete since .pepsi would be run by PepsiCo.

    With the widespread popularity of search engines, nobody would have any trouble finding anything even if some temporary chaos were engendered.

    Spare me the FUD about nameservices not scaling for this; I believe DNS and BIND are quite capable of it.
  6. Anonymous.Coward.name by Fulkkari · · Score: 5, Funny

    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...

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    1. Re:Anonymous.Coward.name by random_rabbit · · Score: 5, Funny
      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.

  7. Advertising? Technical issues? by Tokerat · · Score: 5, Insightful


    Until this article I had never even heard of a .name TLD. Perhaps if more people knew it existed? Most average people are still stuck on .com anyways. I tell them my website's address, 4am.kicks-ass.net (yay DynDNS), which ends in .net, and they call me up complaining it doesnt' work. Some of them put .com, some of them actually put .net.com, and still others put www.4am.kicks-ass.com. Point being, how many people are going to get bounced e-mails from frank@rizzo.com or frank@rizzo.name.com?

    Also, once I get this TLD I need to do something with it. After I pay for hosting or a mail server setup (which is what most people woudl probably want a .name for), this becomes a little more expensive than simply being "gt3trkj3p6@verizon.net"...

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  8. 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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  9. the.site.with.no.name by wowbagger · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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