It works differently than pretty much every other TLD, which means it's different code paths to support.

Many registrars don't support the unique 3rd level domain setup for .name, so it can be hard to find registrars that properly support it.

There's also an associate email redirect service, which is unique to .name and probably costs money to run and maintain.

It's probably easier to support, and more valuable to sell second level .name domains.

Pretty terrible that they were considering just dropping tens of thousands of customer registrations however.

How is it different than others like .co.jp or .ne.jp?

	▲	lambda 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Those ones have a fixed list of second level domains. .name was something where you could register a two part domain, picking both the third and second level, to represent your first and last name.

> It works differently than pretty much every other TLD, which means it's different code paths to support.

but I was told that AI has made code obsolete and free