A number of years ago, I brought a foo.bar.name domain - otherwise known as a third-level domain. The .name domain is bit unusual as it is meant for personal use. Because lots of people share the same last time, it’s pretty common that second-level domains like bar.name to be reserved. In many cases, you can only register third-level domains.
Sometime in 2023 my registrar, Gandi, got acquired and they raised their prices. Annoyed, I’ve been trying to transfer my .name out (along with my other domains), but this was turning into a giant headache!
Many registrars do not support .name domains. Of those that do, almost none of them support third-level .name domains. Not Namecheap (confirmed via support), not dynadot, not… ughhh, GoDaddy.
webnames does support third-level domains, but at a more expensive price than Gandi 🤷 and at roughly 3x the cost of Namecheap 💰
In the process, I learned that Namecheap competes with itself, but Spaceship doesn’t even support .name domains.
Ultimately I decided to just ditch the .name domain. Thankfully I don’t use it for many things (even though it’s my favourite domain)
As an aside, one option I did consider was registering foobar.name instead. But I really like the foo.bar.name format.