Seriously the whole concept sucks - i've had registrars call me with all kinds of "attractive .names" but i've plainly refused. I mean, whoever thought about user expectations - ie. "com", or even "info" is something you can relate to, but name?
... so, i'm gonna see a webpage with my name on it or what? I don't need that, the user don't need that, nobody needs that.
Dot name doesn't follow that pattern, and that makes it's usefulness very limited.
It's actually quite a good idea. Remember, .NAME is not intended for commercial use. It's intended for personal sites, and what better way to identify a personal site than your name?
I did not know that.
So are they going to allow ONLY real names to be registered?
The reason I think it's so silly is because whenever I think of domain names, I always ask myself, "How would this domain name sound if I were telling someone else about it verbally."
"Hey go check out my website at widgets.name!"
"What?"
"Dot N A M E"
"Huh?"
So are they going to allow ONLY real names to be registered?
I think the plan was to ensure people had to use real names in the form firstname.lastname.name. This would keep the hierarchy sane. However, people have sneeked all sorts of stuff past them, like "theman.withno.name".
The real reason for .name, and all the new generic TLDs, is to make money.
Blog format, "about me" pages, personal pictures, all kinds of stuff. It's the content that makes the site personal, not the ".name".
Most names are shared by several thousands of individuals, and the web is worldwide. Still makes no sense to me, it's childish at best..... "i'm the real John Doe, 'coz i got john.doe.name and you haven't"
I'll bet the entire terrain of the more recently introduced TLDs shifts significantly over, say, the next five years.
If it was for personal websites, it should be .personal or something perhaps a bit shorter.
But the internet didn't start that way, and there are quite a few (millions upon millions) of personal web sites which were created out of love or a desire to communicate or some other motivation than money. These are what .NAME is for.
For the non-english among us, there is work going on (for the entire domain name system) to allow different character sets in domain names. I believe it is scheduled to go live in a year or two.
Unfortunately, I doubt anyone's going to pay for it.
It's just dumb dumb dumb.
.aero or .museum
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Then enforce it so all the pron couldn't be anywhere else and we could all config our browsers so our kids couln't get it ..
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[edited by: tedster at 6:15 am (utc) on July 22, 2004]
