Dear Hiawatha Bray (Boston Globe technology writer),
Subj: william@reilly.name -- What happens to the other William Reillys??
I today came upon the "firstname.lastname.name" phenomenon at http://norman.walsh.name (DocBook guru), and a Google-click or two later was at various ".name" registrars happy to tell me my name was still available (for $25 - 60...).
My question: sounds like a nice new appealing way to simplify web addresses, etc., but it is (obviously!) a land rush for the John Smiths (and William Reillys) of the world (maybe less so for Hiawathas! :^) )
> What, if anything, is/was the plan for how this would really play out??
ICANN or whomever runs this hasn't exactly made it clear what the 2nd (and 200th) William Reilly is supposed to do, to join this new world.
Are we just going to HotMail it? (William99.Reilly.name ?) I suppose so.
Anyway, I gave up trying to find a decent news article or opinion piece on this, because Google just leads me to the registrars, largely.
Do you have info on this? Interested in it as a story? Or maybe just a one-liner e-mail reply... (I know you are busy.)
THANK YOU for your time,
Best wishes,
William Reilly
william@reilly2001.info
-- as you can see, (back in 2001) I got an '.info' domain, still pretty unusual...