Hi, I have a doubt which i am sure a lot of people in this list would be able to help me with. There was news that terror groups like Al Qaida, etc. are using internet to promote their terror links and these web sites provide online training on how one could assemble bombs, etc. The community as a whole wants to close all such web sites. I dont think there is any ambiguity there. My question is why cant we ban websites like, say, alqaida.com (hypothetical name), etc. from the whois database. As far as i understand if there is a website with the name of www.abc.com then it needs to register itself with the whois database (from network solutions) so that all the queries to this website can be forwarded to the corresponding nameserver. Now, if we want to block abc.com permanently then cant we simply remove this URL entry from the whois database? Will this work? Thanks, Abhishek -- Class of 2004 Institute of Technology, BHU Varanasi, India