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Verisign asked ICANN to eliminate all third-level '.name' domains to cut administrative complexity, and ICANN approved the request on 28 July 2026. Long-time users like Neil Fraser, who registered his personal domain nearly 25 years ago, learned of the change only recently via registrar notices, and will lose their websites, email addresses, and connected IoT services starting in February.
A study by Interisle Consulting Group found that at least 10% of new generic top-level domain registrations in 2025 had already turned up on security blocklists, with the true share of malicious registrations potentially reaching 20% once related but unlisted domains are counted. Interisle's Greg Aaron and Karen Rose presented these figures at the ICANN 86 Policy Forum, citing ICANN's own research that for every three blocklisted domains, two associated ones often go undetected. ICANN's Office of the CTO has since pushed back somewhat, arguing the numbers hinge heavily on how 'abuse' is defined.