.Name has apparently abandoned their earlier policy of only giving out third level domains (e.g. you could register john.smith.name but not just smith.name — thus preventing any other smiths from using a .name address) and will now act as just another TLD. [ “(extlink)Hack the Planet”:http://wmf.editthispage.com ]
It seems like perhaps a return to a proposal that was floated by Steven Case IIRC a few years ago to create TLD’s for every category of copyright and trademarks needs to be revisited, with some new arrangements made for individuals.
.Name allows monopolizing names
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.Name has apparently abandoned their earlier policy of only giving out third level domains (e.g. you could register john.smith.name but not just smith.name — thus preventing any other smiths from using a .name address) and will now act as just another TLD. [ “(extlink)Hack the Planet”:http://wmf.editthispage.com ]
It seems like perhaps a return to a proposal that was floated by Steven Case IIRC a few years ago to create TLD’s for every category of copyright and trademarks needs to be revisited, with some new arrangements made for individuals.