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I don't know about .name specifically, but some registries have a grace period (or multiple) after which you can still renew it. It's worth checking if you're within the time limit.
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That's my plan. If they can help then cool, otherwise it's not really a big deal.
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They haven't actually stopped taking third level registrations, so get in there before the revised proposal gets submitted approved and implemented
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I think they did. I tried to register one just now and couldn't
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This is a registrar issue not a registry issue. There are registrars still allowing registration of .name domains as well as transfers in.
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First time ive seen ! and ? overlaid. Neat.
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For future reference, ‽ is called an interrobang!

And to show off another fun character, for languages like Spanish that start a question with an inverted question mark, there's also ⸘, the inverted interrobang.

Though I find the name some people call it, gnaborretni (interrobang backwards), much sillier.

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Interesting! If we were to follow Spanish to name the inverted interrobang it'd be opening (and closing) interrobangs, not gnaborretni, just as we don't have nóicagorretni nor nóicamalcxe :)
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I assume you meant sgnaborretni?
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It's called an interrobang. Never really took off but still available in unicode.
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Definitely email the registrar. Maybe it might work?
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Worth a shot.
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While it won't lessen your frustration, I applaud your use of the interrobang. That punctuation mark needs wider use.
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I'm not really frustrated, but it is annoying that I had to migrate accounts and stuff, but whatever.

And yes, I love the interrobang! Ever since I mapped scroll lock to "compose" on my keyboard, I've had fun typing all sorts of characters :)

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I have an auto substitution set up in iOS to automatically replace ?! with ‽ (Same for ellipsis, ... to …)
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And, presumably, "!?"?
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It's a neat little mark but I don't think it has much of a chance being widespread because I think ?! has already won in real usage and doesn't have the fine detail problem. I think it has a better chance of becoming an official grammatical digraph than the merged mark.
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Is there an overlaid ?? and !! mark? (For Chess.)
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There's DOUBLE EXCLAMATION MARK[0] and also DOUBLE QUESTION MARK[1] if those will do.

[0] https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/203c/index.htm

[1] https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2047/index.htm

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Besides interrobang, Unicode includes all 4 possible sequences of 2 "?" and "!".

  203C;DOUBLE EXCLAMATION MARK;Po;0;ON;<compat> 0021 0021;;;;N;;;;;
  203D;INTERROBANG;Po;0;ON;;;;;N;;;;;
  2047;DOUBLE QUESTION MARK;Po;0;ON;<compat> 003F 003F;;;;N;;;;;
  2048;QUESTION EXCLAMATION MARK;Po;0;ON;<compat> 003F 0021;;;;N;;;;;
  2049;EXCLAMATION QUESTION MARK;Po;0;ON;<compat> 0021 003F;;;;N;;;;;
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I don't think it has much of a chance being widespread

I first heard of it back when Usenet was still the hotness.

Apparently it's been around for close to a century, so if it hasn't caught on widely by now, you're probably right.

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> I first heard of it back when Usenet was still the hotness.

This is the first (and probably last) time that I will ever see the words "Usenet" and "hotness" in the same sentence.

Well done, sir.

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It lost when computers overtook typewriters.

On a typewriter, you could type one punctuation mark, backspace, and then type another.

Even once computers added the interrobang to Unicode (or older systems), you either need to type in a numeric code, use a secret bucky bit, or select it from a graphical UI, none of which is worth it for more than the odd weirdo with a whimsical streak.

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