That's 22k people with third level domains like first.last.name. There are close to 100,000 second level last.name registrations, which are not going anywhere.
replyAccording to Wikipedia, "Verisign was the outsourced operator for .name since the .name launch in 2002". That makes the reasoning yet more puzzling.
replyThey ran the backend services, but didn't set the policies (until they acquired the operator in 2008-2009)
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