Re: Domain shut downs by Registrar?

I think Verisign DBMS acts as a registrar for ccTLDs.

No, they're a registry. Not the same thing. The registry holds the definitive database and manages the DNS zone. Registrars face the public and use some sort of API to pass the changes to the registry. Regards, John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. http://jl.ly