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No, that's not how it works. If you have registered the 2LD you have exclusive control of it, and only you can delegate a subdomain under it. However, a great number of common firs…

Yeah, I'm looking forward to being priced out of the domain I've been using for my email for 13 years now. Fun times.

I have one. I'm honestly not sure whether my registration will be refunded or not--the email I got from my registrar said that this is expected to happen but the details are yet to…

My registrar, and as far as I know all registrars who support this at all, lease the 2LD forwarding address as an addon to the 3LD itself, and at rather a steep rate at that.

Not even then, necessarily. A great number of recognized personal names and surnames are proactively reserved and cannot be registered even if there are no 3LD registrations under …

The status quo is that the registry proactively reserves a large list of 2LDs corresponding to attested personal names and surnames, making them unavailable for registration. One c…

I was wondering the same as a registrant since 2013. None that I have heard of, and to be honest I don't think it would have any effect, but I'd still be interested to know what yo…

It was initially not possible, then later opened up, though a large collection of known surnames and personal names are reserved and cannot be registered as 2LDs. As far as I know …

It's... not. Go to whois.nic.name and search for neil.fraser.name, and you will find whois information for that registration. It is properly paid for and registered with Verisign. …

Supposing it were not an edge case and were typical, how exactly would you implement the same thing without keeping a list?