I secured <my last name>.name many years ago. Must have been early 2000's (.name is around for a long time). It wasn't exactly cheap and it is not one of the super cheap domains now. The registry seemed to have a relatively strict policy regarding who can own a .name (not sure if still true, haven't checked again since like 2002). So, the best preconditions to keep their space clean, it seemed...

Yet I gave up on it for the same reasons mentioned in the article: It has a terrible reputation and seems to randomly be blocked here and there.