What is 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 (i.e. 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. 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 (i.e. john@smith.name for the john.smith.name registrant).
