Thanks for spending an hour, hour and a half talking about your plans for the domain name system without once mentioning your plans to start charging registration. That's why I go to NANOG -- so I can find out about major policy changes from "USA Today" and "Good Morning America". Peter PS: Mind you, I think it's completely reasonable for the NIC to charge, and have no opposition to the policy. But it would have been appropriate for you to have mentioned it in that forum. -- "Actually, you just think that's a telephone. Really, it's the alarm that rings whenever I get out of my chair." -- E.S. Peter Berger. System Administrator, Telerama Public Access Internet http://www.lm.com/~peterb Serving Pittsburgh since 1991.