> I had history with Verisign and did not trust them.

I don't know what that history is, but did it really make a tld used by only 22k people more appealing?

decimalenough 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That's 22k people with third level domains like first.last.name. There are close to 100,000 second level last.name registrations, which are not going anywhere.

https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/name-2014-03-03-en

▲

cormorant 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

According to Wikipedia, "Verisign was the outsourced operator for .name since the .name launch in 2002". That makes the reasoning yet more puzzling.

	▲	swiftcoder 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		They ran the backend services, but didn't set the policies (until they acquired the operator in 2008-2009)