Possibly interesting: This kind of idea came up w/in ICANN when they were first considering the idea of adding 1000+ new generic and internationalized TLDs. Will it cause a melt down? Money was allocated, studies and simulations were done, reports were tendered. The conclusion was: Not likely a problem in terms of stress on the DNS etc and that seems to have been correct even if there are other, more social, complaints. You could dig the studies up if you're interested, they should be on the ICANN site. But it's a reasonable approach to the question other than discovering some structural flaw like we'll run out of IP addresses. Not likely but just a "for instance" where we wouldn't need simulations to study. -- -Barry Shein Software Tool & Die | bzs@TheWorld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: +1 617-STD-WRLD | 800-THE-WRLD The World: Since 1989 | A Public Information Utility | *oo*