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Posted by p4bl0 7 hours ago

.name Grandfathered(neil.fraser.name)
635 points | 139 commentspage 3
RagnarD 51 minutes ago|
Here's what I don't understand: if Verisign is too lame to continue handling .name domains, why wouldn't ICANN insist that it auction off that TLD to someone who isn't, and just take control of it and do it themselves if they don't?
xydone 6 hours ago||
Certainly nice to know they would've almost certainly proceeded as normal if the concerns didn't blow up online
asdfasdkljfhkah 4 hours ago||
Thousands of .name owners nearly became .gone owners. Nice to see Verisign choose the one migration plan every engineer secretly loves: don’t migrate anything.
nekusar 1 hour ago||
Grandfathered?

So as long as it was a white grandfather URL, it can vote?

And if your grandfather URL was black, you can't vote?

Seriously, use "retired" or "legacy". "Grandfathered" is Jim Crow and racist shit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandfather_clause

spicybright 1 hour ago|
Wow I never knew the origins of the word. That's unfortunate as it's used pretty much everywhere still, especially in law.
nekusar 51 minutes ago||
You should also look into "sold down the river" or "cakewalk".

Much of the US legacy is just hatred toward black people

bilalabdullahi 4 hours ago||
They shouldnt this easy to take away tbh
charlieyu1 6 hours ago||
Good for them. I just wish I could register a new .yu domain…
toomuchtodo 7 hours ago||
https://itp.cdn.icann.org/en/files/consensus-policies/kane-t...

Success is possible. Well done to all.

hoppp 2 hours ago||
Congrats!!
kinabalu76 6 hours ago||
glad this got resolved, bummer it was thrown into question at all
xyst 4 hours ago|
I wonder how much the midterm elections influenced Verisign in this decision to bend the knee in this "David v Goliath"-esque win.

I was expecting for Verisign to take this to court, drag it out, and bleed the opposing party out. I suppose the judges that Verisign lawyers depend on did not get favorable re-election.

Ofc it’s probably something less nefarious, and boring. Verisign probably did some basic math and determined that taking this to court with their army of overpaid lawyers was simply not cost effective compared to just supporting 3rd level domains.

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