ICANN has approved a request from Verisign to delete every third-level .name domain, addresses like john.doe.name , about 22,000 of them, including registrations paid for until 2040. Many registrants learned about it on September 3, 2026, from a Google engineer's blog post. If you own a domain, or log in anywhere with an email address on someone else's domain, this is a case study in who actually holds the keys to your name on the internet. TL;DR On April 15, 2026, V...