I don't think anyone holds Matt personally responsible for what has happened so please remember that when responding. Verisign has broken everything and unlike the success of their grandfathered monopoly on registrations this might spell the end of their reign over these zones. This has broken the net, an intense attack on the domain name system would probably have had less impact than the havoc Verisign has caused with their point everything to Verisign hack. I'd think this was very irresponsible behaviour, and conjures up shades of past ghosts (does anyone remember CORE?) if I were an oversight authority I'd be very incredibly pissed off right about now. (stupid question) Doesn't the IAB have any authority left? It's interesting that now ICANN -- perhaps for the first time ever -- might be in the position to do something positive and prove it's not all about backroom politics. It's also ironic that someone would have had to spend years in prison for doing what they've done with or without notice or malicious intent. When people are running around hacking new code into BIND, several MTAs, and bog knows what else you can't say you didn't break anything. Throwing up piles of servers and network equipment to be able to respond to garbage IP traffic because you're aiming the world at your network isn't particularly intelligent either but what do I know about it? Len