I've had a .name email address since the TLD was released. Never had any problems with validators.
'Name' is a surprisingly easy word to mis-hear over the phone if it's not expected, though.
'Name' is a surprisingly easy word to mis-hear over the phone if it's not expected, though.
".name" was a pivot from offering an e-mail service (Nameplanet) were we let people register <something>@<lastname>.<various tlds> - we negotiated bulk deals with a range of TLD operators and so had 50k-60k domains or something like that.
Problem with giving people a ".name", I think, is that people often don't get right away that you mean it literally. Especially if you have an unusual firstname/lastname that they know, and you try to avoid spelling out the e-mail address by going "my firstname at my lastname dot name".
I've since gone back to just using my .com - discussing our respective <lastname>.<tld> and how there must be more people who'd like that was actually how it started.