Given that most everyone here has registered NIC handles with Network Solutions, some with probably more than 100 network and domain objects associated with a handle: how exactly do your updates to those NIC handles measure up with plain NSI domain updates? Has the process of updating them at NSI gone into "manual mode" - meaning that it now takes days, even weeks to complete the updates? I really hate to see the effect of people submitting handle updates 3, 4, 5 times, thinking something at NSI's end is wrong (and it is). In my case, my update requests for one and the same handle from July 11, 13 and 19 have all been answered with an auto-reply containing a ticket number, but that's about it. No requests for confirmation, no "has been updated" messages (the latter I sure hope not to see before a request for confirmation) whatsoever. That, and the now persistent, repeated sudden failures of both ARIN and NSI's whois databases, coupled with a flawed "denial, not back-off/slowdown" approach of NSI towards "excessive" querying of their whois database makes my life more difficult than it otherwise would have to be. bye,Kai -- "Just say No" to Spam Kai Schlichting New York, Palo Alto, You name it Sophisticated Technical Peon Kai's SpamShield <tm> is FREE! http://www.SpamShield.org | | LeasedLines-FrameRelay-IPLs-ISDN-PPP-Cisco-Consulting-VoiceFax-Data-Muxes WorldWideWebAnything-Intranets-NetAdmin-UnixAdmin-Security-ReallyHardMath