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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] as their e-mail
address? More confusion! My website is at firstname.lastname.name but my
e-mail address is [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Okay, I now see that I can probably use [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
>
>
