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> 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?
by pmdr 1mo ago
> 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 1mo agoThat'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 https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/name-2014-03-03-en
- cormorant 1mo agoAccording to Wikipedia, "Verisign was the outsourced operator for .name since the .name launch in 2002". That makes the reasoning yet more puzzling.
- swiftcoder 1mo agoThey ran the backend services, but didn't set the policies (until they acquired the operator in 2008-2009)