Dot Name The Forgotten Global Dot (gTLDs)

Submitted by aberingi on Thu, 2007-09-06 00:55.

Hello

This is the second time that I bring the subject up.

I found this news release by SEDO today.
Please keep reading after the newspaper cut.
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17/01/02 |
.Name Goes Live! Personlize Your Web With a Dot-Name

The World Wide Web just got a little more personal. After the release of the new commerce-oriented TLDs .biz and .info, the domain extension .name went live on Tuesday offering users a personalized space on the Net for a mere registration fee of $30/year.

Global Name Registry, the London based firm in charge of registration maintained on Tuesday that 60,000 .name domains have been registered since the Landrush period began last year. Whereas Germany, the UK and France lead in registrations in Europe, Japan is also on the list of top registrants, indicating the truly international demand for the .name extension.

The .name registrants receive a three-tiered address, consisting generally of www.firstname.lastname.name (for example: www.john.smith.name). Included in the package is an email address consisting of the firstname@lastname.name.

Although the .name extensions may not be ripe for the aftermarket given their personal nature, Sedo will keep an eye on their development and, as always, keep you posted on the success of the new TLD as the latest result of ICANN's attempt to better categorize the DNS.

Sources:www.name, www.icann.org
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I have written to the GNR http://gnr.name/

Proposing the liberation of dot name by allowing the owner of a .Name to use the the name of the birth place this way, for example:

My name is Jorge Garcia Gil

A given name and two family names (in Spain we have both family names in our National Identity Card, dad's and mam's)

I was born in the town of Terrassa in Barcelona, Spain.

I own the terrassa.name, so I am proposing to use it this way

jorge.garcia.gil.terrassa.name or
garcia.gil.terrassa.name or
jgg.terrassa.name or
jorge.terrassa.name or
yo.terrassa.name and so on...

So, that all the people of the world whose name is Jorge can use the local name of birth to have a personalized global email address or addresses.

Nowadays if I buy jorge.name for example, nobody else can adquiere the jorge's name or

jorge.garcia.name, nobody else called Jorge García can have that name because it is global.

Imagine how many Jorges in the world will be happy if they could relate thier personal names to their birth place.

I am conducting a test drive in my community and the perspectives of recuperating the Dot Name for a proper rational use of the original intention.

I think that dot.com has been abused and overused in detriment of .Name.

I shall be happy to feed this blog with the ongoing results of my social test.

If anybody wants to discuss this issue further with me,
Please write to jorge[at]terrassa[dot]name. (or comment here)

Time goes quickly and the implentation of IPv6 is inminent.
The USA has 70% of the IPv4 addresses of the world, and they are running running out (source: http://www.ipv6tf.org/index.php?page=news/newsroom)

Korea, Japan and China are leading the transition to IPv6 in the world. Ipv6 technology will allow each individual to have multiples appliances connected to internet.

Thank you
Jorge

PD.- I am the owner of barcelona.name also.

Comments

I am Talking to Myself Inside the Helmet. (Dot Name?)

Submitted by aberingi on Sun, 2007-10-14 15:28.

Hello,

Aberingi says:

It seems to me that at last the internet is opening to the world.
I hope that we do not make the same mistake than with .name.

My theory of fractalizing .name into a localized identity to be able to give each individual an identity despite of the fact that under .name only can be used by an individual globally.

I am jorge [at] terrassa dot name.

I feel good for two reasons:

a) I can use my given name, Jorge
b) I am happy to tell the world where I am from, Terrassa

Internet is 17 years old and is waiting to become of age.

2008 and 2009 are going to be crucial with the IPv6 implementation.

The best thing we can do, before the rush, is to get a single personal identity with a unique IP (email@world.name)and lock it with OpenID.

I´ll keep informing of my talk inside the helmet :-).

I am digesting the concept of intranetalization.

Jorge

jorge.garcia.gil.terrassa.name

Submitted by carl.b on Fri, 2007-09-07 07:21.

One possible way to create a domain and make the subdomains available free to anyone would be freedns.afraid.org, but I am unsure if it would only sub-allocate at the third level.

For instance, if you had terassa.xx in some random TLD, you could use it to allow anyone to claim juan.terassa.xx or pedro.terassa.xx under you. Not sure if it will let you create jorge.pedro.terassa.xx - I tried with this.is.not.awiki.org and it didn't return it as an error. Who knows, it might work. :)

Yes with the implementation of IPv6.

Submitted by aberingi on Sun, 2007-10-14 15:34.

jorge.garcia.gil.terrassa.name and all sort of names (IP's)that we can not image today will be available for many different uses by a single individual.

jorge.garcia.gil.terrassa.name

Cultural difference?

Submitted by kieren.mccarthy on Thu, 2007-09-06 01:29.

Hi Jorge,

I think there might be a cultural issue here. For example, I was born in Cuckfield which is a long way south of London in a county called Sussex, and apart from that time, I have never been there. Nor do I have any intention of going.

I certainly don't want a domain name with "cuckfield" in. I wouldn't even want one with London (where I have spent most of my life) in, or Oxford (where I currently live). Even if I did, I would rather have a .london domain than a very long .name domain.

Clearly birthplace is a much more important thing in your culture, but even bearing that in mind, people have always been pretty unhappy with third-level domains unless the two before it were very short - like ".co.uk". I'm not convinced there would be anything near the demand you appear to predict.

 

Kieren