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Re:.name Grandfathered by nticompass on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @01:13PM (#50443986)
WHAT‽ I let my "first.last.name" registration expire because of the impending shutdown!

I did notice that my domain kept working past the supposed shutdown date, but I let the domain registration expire.

I'm so mad now! I assume there is no way to get my domain/email forwarding back :(

I suppose I could try to ask the registrar, but I highly doubt they can do anything...

Re:.name Grandfathered by _blackhawk_ on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @01:18PM (#50444054)
Definitely email the registrar. Maybe it might work?
Re:.name Grandfathered by nticompass on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @01:28PM (#50444230)
Worth a shot.
Re:.name Grandfathered by BoxOfRain on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @01:19PM (#50444063)
While it won't lessen your frustration, I applaud your use of the interrobang. That punctuation mark needs wider use.
Re:.name Grandfathered by Spivak on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @01:23PM (#50444147)
It's a neat little mark but I don't think it has much of a chance being widespread because I think ?! has already won. I think it has a better chance of becoming an official grammatical digraph than the merged mark.
Re:.name Grandfathered by sillysaurusx on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @01:29PM (#50444239)
Is there an overlaid ?? and !! mark? (For Chess.)
Re:.name Grandfathered by adrian_b on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @02:08PM (#50444773)
Besides interrobang, Unicode includes all 4 possible sequences of 2 "?" and "!".

  203C;DOUBLE EXCLAMATION MARK;Po;0;ON;<compat> 0021 0021;;;;N;;;;;
  203D;INTERROBANG;Po;0;ON;;;;;N;;;;;
  2047;DOUBLE QUESTION MARK;Po;0;ON;<compat> 003F 003F;;;;N;;;;;
  2048;QUESTION EXCLAMATION MARK;Po;0;ON;<compat> 003F 0021;;;;N;;;;;
  2049;EXCLAMATION QUESTION MARK;Po;0;ON;<compat> 0021 003F;;;;N;;;;;
Re:.name Grandfathered by reaperducer on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @01:53PM (#50444545)
I don't think it has much of a chance being widespread

I first heard of it back when Usenet was still the hotness.

Apparently it's been around for close to a century, so if it hasn't caught on widely by now, you're probably right.

Re:.name Grandfathered by saalweachter on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @03:04PM (#50445568)
It lost when computers overtook typewriters.

On a typewriter, you could type one punctuation mark, backspace, and then type another.

Even once computers added the interrobang to Unicode (or older systems), you either need to type in a numeric code, use a secret bucky bit, or select it from a graphical UI, none of which is worth it for more than the odd weirdo with a whimsical streak.

Re:.name Grandfathered by nticompass on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @01:28PM (#50444226)
I'm not really frustrated, but it is annoying that I had to migrate accounts and stuff, but whatever.

And yes, I love the interrobang! Ever since I mapped scroll lock to "compose" on my keyboard, I've had fun typing all sorts of characters :)

Re:.name Grandfathered by lutoma on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @02:43PM (#50445300)
I have an auto substitution set up in iOS to automatically replace ?! with ‽ (Same for ellipsis, ... to …)
Re:.name Grandfathered by oneeyedpigeon on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @02:49PM (#50445377)
And, presumably, "!?"?
Re:.name Grandfathered by mzajc on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @01:20PM (#50444080)
I don't know about .name specifically, but some registries have a grace period (or multiple) after which you can still renew it. It's worth checking if you're within the time limit.
Re:.name Grandfathered by nticompass on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @01:27PM (#50444193)
That's my plan. If they can help then cool, otherwise it's not really a big deal.
Re:.name Grandfathered by edoceo on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @01:22PM (#50444128)
First time ive seen ! and ? overlaid. Neat.
Re:.name Grandfathered by BadBadJellyBean on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @01:24PM (#50444156)
It's called an interrobang. Never really took off but still available in unicode.
Re:.name Grandfathered by chch on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @01:27PM (#50444196)
For future reference, ‽ is called an interrobang!

And to show off another fun character, for languages like Spanish that start a question with an inverted question mark, there's also ⸘, the inverted interrobang.

Though I find the name some people call it, gnaborretni (interrobang backwards), much sillier.

Re:.name Grandfathered by serchinastico on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @01:47PM (#50444462)
Interesting! If we were to follow Spanish to name the inverted interrobang it'd be opening (and closing) interrobangs, not gnaborretni, just as we don't have nóicagorretni nor nóicamalcxe :)
Re:.name Grandfathered by murphyslaw on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @03:07PM (#50445597)
I assume you meant sgnaborretni?
Re:.name Grandfathered by mixdup on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @02:34PM (#50445165)
They haven't actually stopped taking third level registrations, so get in there before the revised proposal gets submitted approved and implemented