Back in the 80s when DNS was a fairly new idea and things like Google were way in the future I remember suggesting on the TCP-IP list that people grab a phone number they owned as a domain name and add first_last as a mailbox so we could leverage the international phone directory system to find each other. For example something like barry_shein@0016176403067.com (maybe insert a letter, all-digits wasn't allowed back then.) I guess that sort of idea was eventually incorporated into telephone number mapping but not clear how successful that is or if the intent is really the same. I think there were other analogues? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_number_mapping But the idea has come up. -- -Barry Shein The World | bzs@TheWorld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD | Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software Tool & Die | Public Access Internet | SINCE 1989 *oo*