com. 304 SOA genieweb.com. root.genieweb.com. ( 11 ; serial 10800 ; refresh (3 hours) 3600 ; retry (1 hour) 604800 ; expire (7 days) This was cached on one our name servers. Sure enough, dig any com @genieweb.com shows: ;; ANSWERS: com. 86400 SOA genieweb.com. root.genieweb.com. ( 11 ; serial 10800 ; refresh (3 hours) 3600 ; retry (1 hour) 604800 ; expire (7 days) 86400 ) ; minimum (1 day) com. 86400 NS genieweb.com. ;; AUTHORITY RECORDS: com. 86400 NS genieweb.com. ;; ADDITIONAL RECORDS: genieweb.com. 86400 A 198.147.97.23 I wonder if this is what has been causing random COM domain lookups to fail for random people at random places. The time I can see this affecting a name server is if it does a lookup for a domain that's lamely delegated to genieweb.com, and then caches the 'com' reply. I've already left voicemail for the genieweb people. -- Sean R. Lynch <seanl@literati.org>