To Sum up.. so I stop getting practically spammed about this.. IAHC's proposal I think stinks.. its horrible.. gTLDs are a waste and it makes trademarking issues 10x as complex because now you have to register 11 TLDs for your company instead of 2 or 3. You can disagree if you want to.. I think 2nd level domains in .US would make more sense.. every other country does this and it WORKS. Nuff' said. IAHC's proposal may stink, it may be the salvation of the net, take your pick. But UNFORTUNATLY -NO- other group has come up with a counter proposal that makes ANY sense that gets feedback from the same broad-based membership IAHC's signees have. IAHC went out of their way to make it non-partisan. Every other DNS hack out there has said "our way is best, use us!" without issuing any type of public proposal, publish forums, and public comments. So for better or worse we are stuck with IAHC's proposal and solution because NOBODY else came up with ANYTHING better. If the 4-5 other DNS groups had banded together at the onset instead of knifing each other in the back for $50 than maybe something good would have come out of their efforts. Give it up. IAHC wins... because nobody opposed it with a REASONABLE counter-proposal... Matt ------------------------------------------------- Matthew E. Pearson Vice President of Development Games-Online Inc. http://www.games-online.com