Registering .name domains

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Names are an essential part of our lives. Now, with .name, your name can be central to your life online too. As your .name can be registered for up to 10 years and ownership is renewable, your .name domain name really can be yours for life.

Email Address for Life

An example is peter@morgan.name. This can be your email address for life.

It makes life simpler. The only thing anyone needs to remember to get in touch is your name.

It's incredibly accessible. Wherever you are in the world, however often you change jobs or ISPs, you'll be able to receive your email through your .name address.

It could be your universal address. Very soon, you'll be able to use it as your contact address on an array of different devices, including your cellular phone.

Web Address for Life

An example of a web address is www.peter.morgan.name.

It's personal. Whether you use it to show off your holiday photos or as an online portfolio, your .name domain is an easy way to express yourself online.

It's global. It will be a new global standard for personal Web addresses - in exactly the same way as .com is for business, so you'll be part of a worldwide family of users.

It's non-commercial. No companies or third parties are mentioned in your domain.

It will develop into a unified digital identity. Soon it could be a secure repository for personal information and a way of shopping online without giving out your financial details.

Generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD)

Generic top-level domains (gTLDs) are designed to radically increase the availability of personal domains through our two-dot system.

Uniquely for a gTLD, .name domains are only issued at the third level and therefore have two dots. This extra dot enables you to share your family name with thousands of others, vastly increasing your chance of using your full name as your web address.

.name domain can follow either of these formats:

• firstname.lastname.name
• lastname.firstname.name

You can also use your initials or nicknames instead of your first names, or use numbers to create your unique identity.

If you register your .name domain, your .name email address of the same name will be put on hold for as long as you own the registration on your domain. If you then decide to buy, you must do so through the Official Provider that sold you your domain. But remember, you'll get your .name domain and email more inexpensively if you register them together.

The difference between .name and the other TLDs

.name was started to give personal domain name access to a much larger amount of people. Since no one can register just a last name, your chances of having your firstname.lastname.name combination is much greater.

The biggest and most obvious difference is that you need to register the second level and third level of a domain name. For example, thirdlevel.secondlevel.toplevel is the structure of a domain name. So in short, you need to check and register two pieces of a domain instead of one. For example firstname.lastname.name

Another difference is that the .name registry also offers (at a fee) an email address used only to forward email built around this structure thirdlevel@secondlevel.name. An example is john@smith.name for the www.john.smith.name registrant.

How to get the .name email forwarding address

Your .name email forwarding email address is offered to you free with your .name registration. It is set by default to auto forward all emails to your default SuperbRegistrar billing email address. To change that email address, go into the control panel of your .name domain and click on the .name Email button.

The difference between the .name email forwarding address and the free SuperbRegistrar email forward service

The difference is in the structure of the email address. With the .name email address, the structure would look like this for the john.smith.name registrant: john@smith.name.

With SuperbRegistrar, you can have many more email addresses forwarded, but the email address structure for the domain name john.smith.name would be something similar to email@john.smith.name or john@john.smith.name.

You can use the .name email forwarding service, which you can manage in your SuperbRegistrar account, and at the same time, have a free SuperbRegistrar email service such as an email forwarding address or a POP3/Webmail account.