.name Termination - Hacker News

Posted by pavel_lishin 19 hours ago

1777 points | 447 commentspage 6

swiftcoder 17 hours ago|

That's pretty shit. You'd think changes like this would need to go through a public comment period with the affected users (much like city planning decisions do)

xyst 18 hours ago||

Verisign is the worst. Hope author wins

xiaoyu2006 17 hours ago|

May I ask what is wrong with Verisign?

DaSHacka 17 hours ago|||

Well, the post in OP is a good start

gpvos 17 hours ago|||

They have been generally scummy throughout their existence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verisign#Controversies is a good start.

johnnyApplePRNG 15 hours ago||

They deserve to lose their control of all domains over this.

This is ridiculous.

underdeserver 15 hours ago||

dang and team, perhaps it makes sense to special-case .name domains in the domain hint, like you do for GitHub and Ex-Twitter.

aidenn0 10 hours ago|

Per TFA, that won't be necessary for much longer.

bix6 17 hours ago||

Fuck verasign. TLDs should be run as an actual public utility. Can these economic parasites be expelled already…

allthetime 2 hours ago|

Something tells me we ain’t seen nothing yet

Maxforever 7 hours ago||

I saw it

1970-01-01 16 hours ago||

Instead of giving up, why can't all 22k .name owners move on to OpenNIC? They will not say no, you can't have that.

notahacker 16 hours ago|

The ability to register fraser.geek so a very small number of OpenNIC users can access that new URL doesn't really solve the OP's problem with his family's long-established URLs disappearing and their emails being directed to whichever scammer buys up the fraser.name domain.

1970-01-01 15 hours ago||

That isn't the correct problem. The 3rd level domain is going away, which can be reconqured via OpenNIC and mass re-adoption. There will surely be new problems, but owning will not be among those problems.

Macha 15 hours ago||

The problem is everyone else (such as email providers...) recognising your ownership.

1970-01-01 13 hours ago||

That's why you form leverage with 22k others that are in the same boat as you. The root with the users is the root that becomes trusted, which then becomes the root that resolves. Rolling-over and allowing ICANN to quietly get away with this is exactly what they want.

TZubiri 7 hours ago||

https://itp.cdn.icann.org/en/files/consensus-policies/rsep-2...

>2.1. What effect, if any, will the proposed service have on the life cycle of domain names?

>None. There will not be any effect on the life cycle of domain names.

>2.2. Does the proposed service alter the storage and input of Registry Data?

>No. There will not be an alteration to the storage and input of Registry Data.

This sounds wrong? Is this just a knee-jerk form-filler reaction? It seems to me that the admitted "Upon discontinuation, no new third level domain names will be registered and existing third level domain names will be terminated."

In general this sounds like a grotesque misplay that is wildly uncharacteristic for the entity behind the timeless .com

marbleotter115 13 hours ago||

.name is the part I keep having to relearn, so seeing it spelled out helps.

0xbadcafebee 13 hours ago|

Prediction: In 20 years, ICANN, IANA, ARIN become increasingly abandoned by nations wary of The Imperialist States of America's control over global communication & commerce, and the internet becomes an uber-net of nationalist internets, subverted by satellites.

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