Surprisingly the public suffix list doesn't list `*.name`. So they're indeed not properly isolated from each other.

edit: apparently not all second level domains in .name are public suffixes anymore, so a wildcard addition wouldn't be correct.

It wouldn't surprise me if that is (maybe even a large) part of the reason for this change.

	▲	xp84 39 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		What does Verisign care though? It's been that way for way over a decade since they started allowing 2LD registrations. I very highly doubt they are suddenly so worried about random individuals' personal internet security. It has to be a money problem. Something they want to do will be simpler if this is no longer a quirky registry. And they know they'll get the money back that they lose from not having bob.smith pay -- probably by throwing all the "last names" once registered this way into some "premium name" bucket and selling them for $1000 and up instead of the ~$10 that zyzgdhaf234.name fetches. In fact, I'm not sure that scheme isn't the reason itself.