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Re: .name Termination

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Post by NAR8789 »

dang wrote: post #428
NAR8789 wrote: post #408

@dang can you update the domain extraction logic for hn titles to include the 3rd level domain for .name domains? It's a little too poetically unfortunate that HN lists the domain on this article as `fraser.name`

Sure. We have this for countries, like "example.co.uk", so I made "name" be a country and it...just works (maybe). You only get a first name and a last name and a .name though. You can't be robert.louis.stevenson.name - just louis.stevenson.name. (Incidentally, this was a Claude suggestion. The change only took a couple minutes but figuring out what mechanism in the code could do this would have taken me a lot longer…

thanks!

Re: .name Termination

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Post by swiftcoder »

angoragoats wrote: post #512
account42 wrote: post #498

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They do if they are employed in a non-tiny company where they work at least partially on a computer and paid attention during security training.

Even if I agree with you that the "average person" meets the 3 specific criteria you list (which I don't), I don't believe the claim that the typical security training includes specific instruction in how TLDs and domain registration work, at least not in enough detail for a person to be able to follow the discussion we're having here.

> I don't believe the claim that the typical security training includes specific instruction in how TLDs and domain registration work

Mine just has an animated llama telling me not to click suspicious links in emails

Re: .name Termination

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Post by chriscjcj »

hackrmn wrote: post #543
chriscjcj wrote: post #524

In 1992, I got myself an AT&T EasyReach 700 number. It was going to be my phone number for life. They killed that a couple years later. Then I got an AT&T True Connections 500 number. It was going to be my phone number for life. That died a few years later too.

And what lesson have you learned?

A similar lesson to the one OP has now learned I suppose.

Re: .name Termination

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Post by veltas »

dpoloncsak wrote: post #277
veltas wrote: post #233

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yet that is a problem the owner of such a domain has freely entered into by buying that domain, it's their right to keep it despite this apparent problem, if they wish.

Understood, and .name isn't being used enough in business to worry about 'the effect it will have on my users'. Just pointing out that it doesn't work like the 'norm' (although I guess it's not quite as unique as I thought, either)

That's actually the point of the .name TLD is that it's not for businesses, it's for individuals. This whole situation demonstrates ICANN is more for businesses than individuals. It should just be there for everyone and every organisation that's trying to use URI's, shame that it's not worked out that way. This is exactly what the big tech companies want, they might as well hand ICANN over to Facebook or Google, they wouldn't do much worse.

Re: .name Termination

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Post by ShinyLeftPad »

jaggederest wrote: post #509
SpaceNugget wrote: post #479

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you mean wildcard domain? Are you perhaps confusing domain renewals with dns entries?

Instead of registering foo.com, and having bob.foo.com, they would register bobfoo.com - they had hundreds or thousands of certs, as a result, and had to renew them all annually or biannually. We didn't even manage all of the domains, we just had to renew the ones our group was responsible for, and it was in the dozens, and each form was ~30-40 actions to fill out correctly. I forget whether they were quarterly or we…

> nobody really wanted domains of the form somelongnamebobfoo.com

You'd be surprised

and renewing annually is a great way to accidentally forget some of these and let someone use them to hack your customers

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