Verisign drops .name termination plan, domain holder says

Verisign is retracting a plan to terminate 22,000 domain names and email redirects, affected domain holder Neil Fraser said. Existing third-level .name domains and email redirects will remain indefinitely, while new registrations for third-level domains will close. Fraser described a campaign involving formal reconsideration requests, legal work, letters of support and an in-person appeal to ICANN in Bali. The reversal preserves existing addresses but does not keep the registration service open to new users.