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fraser.name does not seem to be currently registered, so it seems they could automatically give him that name, and hence solve the problem entirely.

But I wonder if there might be some competing names on the third level? Like, he's neil.fraser.name, but what if there's also bob.fraser.name and they'd both very much like to keep their domains?

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I think the point is that currently if anyone.fraser.name is registered, then fraser.name cannot be registered.

The change that Verisign is making is to deregister all the *.fraser.name domain registrations, which will then free up fraser.name for registration.

So it becomes a race to register fraser.name and the winner gets to recreate all the *.fraser.name subdomains they want, for whatever purpose they want.

I know, but what I mean is, if he's the only one that even owns anything at .fraser.name now, then it'd be easy to just automatically give him all of .fraser.name when that happens, and then he can recreate his subdomains without worrying about someone else snagging it first. But that doesn't work if someone else owns somethingelse.fraser.name, because you can't give it to both of them.

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