Domain Name Wire Discontinuation of third-level .name domains leaves some in a lurch

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People will soon loses their email addresses and websites. Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) is discontinuing third-level .name domain registrations, which will cause pain for an unspecified number of registrants. The company told ICANN that about 22,000 third-level .name registrations exist, but many of them are unused. ICANN approved (pdf) Verisign’s Registry Services Evaluation Policy requests related […]

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I’d be pretty upset too. You use the same name for years, pay it through 2040, and then find out it’s going away....