Hi Gabor, First off, this is a hot debate in the RIPE DNS working group (dns-rw@ripe.net), and I suggest followups to be sent there. I know that at least for the NL TLD, it is required that one is registered in the Chambers of Commerce. (I hope piet^H^H^H^Hhostmaster does not mind this translation from the Dutch guidelines ;-) Geert Jan On Thu, 9 Nov 1995 17:45:21 +0100 Gabor Kiss wrote:

There is a hot debate in Hungary. Some peoples want me to start registering second level domains for individuals.

Personally I think this practice would have serious disadvantages: - I would have to process incredible amount of registration requests. - We would have to run the top level DNS on a really big machine. - The RIPE-DB would contain 26000 domain objects instead of 16000.

I wish to know how this problem is handled in different countries. I guess there was several continent-wide discussion about this question. Where can I find documents and archived matter?