tl;dr: Verisign proposed and ICANN approved the termination of all 3rd-level .name domains, effective February 2026, affecting roughly 22,000 registrants including the author, who has used neil.fraser.name for nearly 25 years. Beyond losing websites and email, the shutdown creates a serious security risk: if the freed 2nd-level domains (e.g., fraser.name) get registered by others, they could hijack accounts, code signing, and IoT devices tied to the original addresses.