If you checkout the wikipedia article for the .name TDL they initially only allowed you to register “third level” domain names. And that’s what we’re dealing with here.
Originally registrations had to be at third level, in form john.smith.name , but later direct second-level registrations were allowed
As [surname].name would be a huge list, none are in the Public Suffix List, so subdomains of those can’t be added to Cloudflare which is why you get that message…
Ok, so it sounds like Cloudflare does not support .name domain names if they were registered as third level (first.last.name) domain names.
I guess, I had hoped there was some alternative process to get these domains setup in Cloudflare, maybe through a support ticket or something like that.
Maybe this just doesn’t come up very often, but I guess my feedback would that it would be nice if there was a specific error about this and or it got called out in the Docs. But maybe I was one of the only people who thought this was cool.
It’s an annoying problem to try to sort out because using a search engine to fine something about .name TDL is hard. You just get a bunch of results about “domain names” in general.
For better or worse I have several of these style of domain names that are in use.