Hi Markus, First of all, thanks for your appearance in this forum. | ORSN is an DNS system with all the same information provided by ICANN. | The difference: We have our own managed and independent database!!! That's all great and noble, but as a user I wish to make use of exactly one copy of this data, and that is the one that is provided already by an organisation which has - admittedly - some problems of their own, but none that we can't fix using proper politics. | In few days you will found an tool to compare the ORSN database | with the ICANN root servers in realtime on our homepage. There should not be a difference in the first place. | Notice: | The independent mode of ORSN was implemented to disable the automatic | synchronization of the database. Which makes it possible - at your sole discression (and I happen to have actually read your FAQ) - for you to dictate a new (alternative) dataset. If you want better root presence in Europe, why aren't you offering services to the existing deployment ? It seems like you have some political objection to the root maintainer. Can you elaborate on that (in private or on this mailinglist) ? -- Met vriendelijke groet, BIT BV / Ing P.B. van Pelt PBVP1-RIPE (PGPKEY-4DCA7E5E)