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subarctictoday at 6:24 PM1 replyview on HN

Can someone explain what this is, to someone who has never heard of the .name tld before?


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wmftoday at 6:39 PM

Instead 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.

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