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.name: ICANN's Personal Namespace That Never Scaled—and Verisign Is Ending the firstname.lastname.name Era
~96K names under Verisign management (2026), down from 232K in 2012; $6.60 wholesale; third-level registrations and legacy tiered WHOIS slated for discontinuation. Verified roofs: cavin.name, lemire.name, jarekq.name. Delete the old guide's about.me fiction, unverified NameBio sales, and AIO boilerplate.
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.me Is Montenegro's ccTLD, Google's gccTLD, and Telegram's t.me — Not a Personal Branding Brochure
~1.1M names on Identity Digital backend, €114M+ registry revenue since 2008, a 2023 contract expiry the old guide ignored, verified roofs from t.me to about.me — and why timbl.me, wave.me, and AIO Person-schema boilerplate failed audit.