Given the ongoing flux in national boundaries and identities, this topic is highly appropriate and the contributors gave well spoken input. Thank you. Cutler At 10/3/2005 05:13 PM -0500, Joe Johnson wrote: So, basically, following the instructions at http://www.iana.org/cctld/cctld-establishment-procedures-19mar03.htm, I need to be sure I legally acquire the island from a nation for the express purpose of running my own country (the sales agreement says I am no longer part of them). After I establish my national government (I held an impromptu straw-poll in the office, and we chose "Joetopia" as the name of my island nation), I need to petition the UN to be recognized as a nation and be listed in their report. After that, I automatically get a 2-letter nation code and can petition ICANN for a ccTLD of my 2-letter code. I can then choose to run .jt (or whatever my ccTLD ends up being) from any place I desire. Well, thanks for all the help everyone. Hopefully it broke the day's monotony for some of you. Now I just need to sit back and wait for those lotto winnings to roll in (ha!). Joe Johnson joe@sendjoeanemail.com P.S.: Don't worry, I'll be sure to have plenty of redundancy in my DNS (physically separate NS's, multiple DNS servers, power, etc.) and I won't brook no spammers. Not from my .jt ccTLD! - James R. Cutler james.cutler@consultant.com