First impressions are that .name is a bad joke. Who in their right mind
would want to register john5.smith.name or john.smith5.name? Oh, I know,
all of those AOLusers who are used to this kind of thing. Talk about
confusion -- yes I just finished reading the IANA report on .name at
http://www.iana.org/reports/name-report-16aug01.htm where they talk about
reducing public confusion to a minimum -- go to my website at
john5.smith.name, no not john.smith.name or john1.smith.name or ...
Then there is the fact that you would need to register a different domain
for each member of your family -- hoping that your future childrens names
are still available when they are born... Yeah, I see on the .name
website the example of jennifer.smith.name adding her children as
kidname.jennifer.smith.name, etc. No thanks, I'll sick with a 2nd level
family name domain which allows me to add each of my family members (as
3rd level names) as I see fit.
This really reminds me of the existing services out there that will rent
you a third level domain off of their second level domain.
The e-mail forwarding thing really confuses me. Are they trying to say
that the only way to use the domain for e-mail is to sign up for their
(additional cost) e-mail forwarding? And if you don't within 120 days,
they may let someone else use the firstname@lastname.name as their e-mail
address? More confusion! My website is at firstname.lastname.name but my
e-mail address is firstname123@lastname.name.
Okay, I now see that I can probably use somename@firstname.lastname.name
as an e-mail address on my own server, which some people may or may not
like.
Another problem just came to mind. What happens if someone uses
spammer@lastname.name to send spam and the whole "domain" lastname.name
gets blocked/added to spam domain lists? What if I was cruel and named my
child "abuse" and registered abuse@lastname.name for them. Then they
would get all of the spam complaints for lastname.name. (I just checked,
"abuse" is not on the registries reserved name list. What about
"postmaster", "webmaster", etc? ;)
What kind of stability and reduction in confusion (i.e. the IANA report)
does all of this mess create?
On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Rick Baraniuk wrote:
> Hi all
> Was hoping to get some feedback from you with regards to what will be our
> next product offering: .name.
>
> We have just put up an information document here:
> http://www.opensrs.org/dotname_info.shtml which contains information about
> the 4 products associated with .name:
> 1. Domain Name Registration
> 2. Email Forwarding
> 3. Defensive Registrations
> 4. NameWatch
>
> I am looking for feedback specifically on what you would value the above
> products at...I am trying to bench exactly what you are interested to see if
> Tucows should roll-out one, some or all the above products.
>
> What are the major questions/issues/concerns that you have as it relates to
> the products?
>
> Feel free to email me offline, but I would also love to see what kind of
> conversation is generated, so feel free to use the list. I will stay out of
> thing til tomorrow so that I can digest feedback.
>
> Thanks for your help
>
> Rick Baraniuk
> Product Manager
> Registrar Integrations
> Tucows Inc.
> p.416.535.0123x1336
> c.416.346.0385
>
>
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