Luckily the average person has no idea what a TLD or a subdomain are

The average person doesn’t have the foggiest idea how TLDs, DNS, or domain registration work at all.

The only people who will make the assumptions you state are people who are tech-savvy enough to be familiar with those concepts, but not well-versed enough in them to understand the nuances we’re discussing.

And none of this does anything to advance the argument that .name is somehow nonstandard.