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  giancarlostoro
  > After a long and expensive battle, news just dropped that Verisign is retracting its plan to terminate 22,000 domain names and email redirects. Although they will be closing new registrations for 3rd-level .name domains, all existing domains (including this website) and email redirects will remain indefinitely.This was what I figured SHOULD happen when they did this. Allow existing customers to keep renewing, but nobody new allowed, if a tld frees up over time, reclaim it completely and sell it off.What they were proposing should really be illegal...
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  nticompass
  WHAT‽ I let my "first.last.name" registration expire because of the impending shutdown!I did notice that my domain kept working past the supposed shutdown date, but I let the domain registration expire.I'm so mad now! I assume there is no way to get my domain/email forwarding back :(I suppose I could try to ask the registrar, but I highly doubt they can do anything...(Edit: I'm not actually mad, but it was annoying to have to move accounts from my first@last.name email to another one)
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  kwanbix
  Why would they even want to close it? It is probably close to 0 cost tot hem. Or am I wrong?
• derhuerst
  previous discussion on the predecessor post, 69 days ago, 547 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49550772
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  Tepix
  Vive la résistance!Resistance is not futile.
• zamadatix
  Congrats to those wanting to keep their domains! I'm surprised they went with perpetual (well, as much as anything is) support, i.e. allowing renewals and such rather than just letting it naturally expire (the initial proposal was to immediately cease these records at a given date with no clear communication on how they'd be protected or not from re-registering the upper level domains or not).
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  a1o
  How does one register a domain under .name ? I can’t find info through search because it discards the dot no matter what I try.
• doublepg23
  I've had a .name for almost a decade now and was not aware of it's history.Shame I didn't register on my lastname .name , I had thought it was a much newer gTLD.
• kinabalu76
  glad this got resolved, bummer it was thrown into question at all
• xydone
  Certainly nice to know they would've almost certainly proceeded as normal if the concerns didn't blow up online
• charlieyu1
  Good for them. I just wish I could register a new .yu domain…
• sparkling
  If you are into stories about weird and obscure domain happenings: https://eualternative.eu/guides/bulgaria-bg-private-registry...
• toomuchtodo
  https://itp.cdn.icann.org/en/files/consensus-policies/kane-t...Success is possible. Well done to all.
• eks391
  So glad this happened. When I first heard, I assumed that all the folks wronged would simply be disregarded even though Verisign was blatantly breaking consumer protection laws (I assume. If it wasn't, those laws are incomplete). The fact that Verisign even tried still makes me upset though. It's really annoying what several companies will do as long as their hand isn't forced due to legal or social repercussions
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  dist-epoch
  So, turns out Verisign is not the Devil incarnate?