Talk:.name

Why Steve Bar?

Why are we using Steve Bar as the example name in this article? Can we change it to something more generic and recognizable as an example name like John Doe? --Voidxor 05:20, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

We were using "foo bar", but someone apparently thought that "foo" was a rude word, and changed it to "steve". Feel free to change it again. --Zundark 07:03, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

The example is now john doe. --Unixguy 20:13, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

NPOV

"harboring hackers for a few dollars more" isn't the type of language we want to see in wikipedia. The bias of the controversy section is strongly against GNR, and poor clone of the also Wired magazine article it is based on. Can we rewrite to simply state the facts: GNR is charging for whois information, GNR argues that this cuts down on spam, however it has hindered security researchers efforts to contact the owners of hacked systems.

Meekrob (talk) 15:37, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

I'll see what I can do. It doesn't seem like theres a whole lot of opposition, so why didn't you just Be bold and do it yourself? This doesn't really warrant a NPOV tag as there really is no dispute. D^rew S^mith 06:12, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

What??

As a personal, unique and memorable identifier, name addresses are increasingly being used as a natural address for Digital Identity applications.

No citation given, and the above line seems completely out of whack with reality. Can we delete this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.199.187.50 (talk) 22:37, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

Go Daddy and .name registrations

Go Daddy, the largest domain registrar, stopped new registrations of .name domains in 2008. A message to this effect appears on the Go Daddy site, in the forum, apparently from a representative of the company [1] (but that might not be a usable citation for wikipedia).Robert Hiller (talk) 18:38, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

Dead link

During several automated bot runs the following external link was found to be unavailable. Please check if the link is in fact down and fix or remove it in that case!

• http://www.nic.name/erdrp.html
  • In .name on 2011-05-20 22:31:38, 404 Not Found
  • In .name on 2011-05-31 15:05:30, 404 Not Found

--JeffGBot (talk) 15:05, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

Dead link 2

During several automated bot runs the following external link was found to be unavailable. Please check if the link is in fact down and fix or remove it in that case!

• https://whois.nic.name/extensiveagreement.pdf
  • In .name on 2011-05-20 22:31:50, 404 /DotNameWhois//extensiveagreement.pdf
  • In .name on 2011-05-31 15:05:35, 404 /DotNameWhois//extensiveagreement.pdf

--JeffGBot (talk) 15:05, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

unsourced statement

"Mostly used as intended, but has not grown as fast as .com/.biz/.info" needs citation Brownturkey (talk) 19:37, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

Still valid?

I just tried to (re)register a .name domain and could not find any registrar that actually supports it. The Verisign site points to hundreds of registrars, many of which are listed as supporting .name. But trying many of them - no go! If .name is history, then the article should probably say so.Kcrossle (talk) 22:24, 3 August 2011 (UTC)

Yeah, .name registrars are hard to find these days, and the Verisign list has many bogus entries in it. Nonetheless, registrars do still exist for .name, even for 3rd level registrations. I've put together a list of them that people might find helpful: http://daniel.gnoutcheff.name/dotname/reglist/ (I use 007names myself.)

I would add it to the article external links list myself, but since I made it myself I'm probably not the best judge of its usefulness. PersistentLurker (talk) 20:56, 14 August 2011 (UTC)

Well, even your daniel.gnoutcheff.name doesn't work any more. — SMcCandlish   Talk⇒ ɖ∘¿¤þ   Contrib. 11:28, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

After hours of programmatic testing, including dozens of registars that supposedly support the .name domain, including many with forms to submit to register such names, I have yet to find one that actually functions at the third level (e.g. john.doe.name). I was able to find one registry (operating under several d/b/a names), NTC Hosting (of London, UK, but serving the world) who still do second-level registrations (e.g. johndoe23.name. Virtually all surnames known in the Western world, and many outside of it, are already registered by Network Solutions (Verisign), and my digging suggests that it is no longer possible to register 3LDs (like john.doe.name) in any of these, even through registrars that formerly provided this service. One can, of course, add a 3LD to a domain (like johndoe23.name, in our examples) that one controls. — SMcCandlish   Talk⇒ ɖ∘¿¤þ   Contrib. 11:28, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

Not clear what you're talking about, this page still works: http://www.enomcentral.com/domains/register_name.asp Shii (tock) 06:47, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

eNom can register .names; however, they do not support the 3rd@2nd.name special email despite what they advertise on their site. According to https://www.bbb.org/western-washington/business-reviews/internet-web-hosting/enom-incorporated-in-kirkland-wa-64002064/reviews-and-complaints (complaint 8/29/2015),

The service that the complainant mentions, which is not prominently discussed on eNom nor promoted whatsoever, is no longer offered by eNom.  As such, we will be removing the references to the service from our website.  Refunds are determined on a case by case basis.

Dmtucker233 (talk) 21:44, 28 May 2017 (UTC)