WHAT‽ I let my "first.last.name" registration expire because of the impending shutdown!

I did notice that my domain kept working past the supposed shutdown date, but I let the domain registration expire.

I'm so mad now! I assume there is no way to get my domain/email forwarding back :(

I suppose I could try to ask the registrar, but I highly doubt they can do anything...

(Edit: I'm not actually mad, but it was annoying to have to move accounts from my first@last.name email to another one)

▲ mzajc 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I don't know about .name specifically, but some registries have a grace period (or multiple) after which you can still renew it. It's worth checking if you're within the time limit.

	▲	nticompass 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That's my plan. If they can help then cool, otherwise it's not really a big deal.

▲ mixdup 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They haven't actually stopped taking third level registrations, so get in there before the revised proposal gets submitted approved and implemented

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Panda4 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I think they did. I tried to register one just now and couldn't

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troyrollo an hour ago | parent [-]

This is a registrar issue not a registry issue. There are registrars still allowing registration of .name domains as well as transfers in.

	▲	grimgrin 23 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Any reason you didn't mention them? Seems handy. I couldn't find an example registrar accepting 3rd level name domains.

▲ edoceo 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

First time ive seen ! and ? overlaid. Neat.

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chch 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

For future reference, ‽ is called an interrobang!

And to show off another fun character, for languages like Spanish that start a question with an inverted question mark, there's also ⸘, the inverted interrobang.

Though I find the name some people call it, gnaborretni (interrobang backwards), much sillier.

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serchinastico 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Interesting! If we were to follow Spanish to name the inverted interrobang it'd be opening (and closing) interrobangs, not gnaborretni, just as we don't have nóicagorretni nor nóicamalcxe :)

	▲	murphyslaw 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I assume you meant sgnaborretni?

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BadBadJellyBean 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It's called an interrobang. Never really took off but still available in unicode.

▲ _blackhawk_ 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Definitely email the registrar. Maybe it might work?

	▲	nticompass 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Worth a shot.

▲ BoxOfRain 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

While it won't lessen your frustration, I applaud your use of the interrobang. That punctuation mark needs wider use.

▲ nticompass 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I'm not really frustrated, but it is annoying that I had to migrate accounts and stuff, but whatever.

And yes, I love the interrobang! Ever since I mapped scroll lock to "compose" on my keyboard, I've had fun typing all sorts of characters :)

▲ lutoma 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I have an auto substitution set up in iOS to automatically replace ?! with ‽ (Same for ellipsis, ... to …)

	▲	oneeyedpigeon 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		And, presumably, "!?"?

▲ Spivak 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It's a neat little mark but I don't think it has much of a chance being widespread because I think ?! has already won in real usage and doesn't have the fine detail problem. I think it has a better chance of becoming an official grammatical digraph than the merged mark.

▲ sillysaurusx 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Is there an overlaid ?? and !! mark? (For Chess.)

	▲	adrian_b 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Besides interrobang, Unicode includes all 4 possible sequences of 2 "?" and "!". `203C;DOUBLE EXCLAMATION MARK;Po;0;ON;<compat> 0021 0021;;;;N;;;;; 203D;INTERROBANG;Po;0;ON;;;;;N;;;;; 2047;DOUBLE QUESTION MARK;Po;0;ON;<compat> 003F 003F;;;;N;;;;; 2048;QUESTION EXCLAMATION MARK;Po;0;ON;<compat> 003F 0021;;;;N;;;;; 2049;EXCLAMATION QUESTION MARK;Po;0;ON;<compat> 0021 003F;;;;N;;;;;`
	▲	zimpenfish an hour ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		There's DOUBLE EXCLAMATION MARK[0] and also DOUBLE QUESTION MARK[1] if those will do. [0] https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/203c/index.htm [1] https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2047/index.htm
	▲	echoangle 29 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		‼ ⁇

▲ reaperducer 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I don't think it has much of a chance being widespread

I first heard of it back when Usenet was still the hotness.

Apparently it's been around for close to a century, so if it hasn't caught on widely by now, you're probably right.

	▲	ahnick an hour ago \| parent [-]
		> I first heard of it back when Usenet was still the hotness. This is the first (and probably last) time that I will ever see the words "Usenet" and "hotness" in the same sentence. Well done, sir.

▲ saalweachter 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It lost when computers overtook typewriters.

On a typewriter, you could type one punctuation mark, backspace, and then type another.

Even once computers added the interrobang to Unicode (or older systems), you either need to type in a numeric code, use a secret bucky bit, or select it from a graphical UI, none of which is worth it for more than the odd weirdo with a whimsical streak.

	▲	kevin_thibedeau 16 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		There have been video terminals that allowed overstriking glyphs.