.Name domains: second level now open

Global Name Registry announced:

Breaking News: Global Name Registry will open up its second level for registrations, meaning names like spike.name, abc.name, pmorgan.name, will be available.

So if you're quick you can now get a hold of the [yourlastname].name domain! I've registered mine (tielens.name) at MyDomain.com for $29.90 / 2 years. They offer free URL and email forwarding, even for subdomains (I think unlimited). So you can now visit my blog by surfing to http://jan.tielens.name. I think it's quite cool because such a domain is not company related at all, you can have your personal email address like yourfirstname@yourlastname.name and let it forward to your current email address. When your email address changes (e.g. you change work, your ISP gets boughts by another company, ...) you can easily change the forwared to match your new address.