A few lines: 1. Was it neccessary to have this subject line in order to start a serious discussion? 2. While you are discussing the problems in the US, don't forget we are facing the same problems in the emerging countries? I understand the importance of the TLD in the US, but believe me - it's very difficult to answer the questions of Bulgarian ISPs, internauts, and usual people when they see the same situation here, except that instead of USGovernment, you could change the words to BG-NIC. And despites our efforts to bring this issue to RIPE, IANA, ISOC, Bulgarian authority... there's no result. You can see the story at http://www.bol.bg, http://www.bioteam.bg, http://www.bis.bg, http://www.cyberlink.bg, http://www.inet.bg, http://www.mobiltel.bg and many other Bulgarian web sites under the gif picture named TLDA.GIF with a signature: .BG - For A Better TLDA Is there someone that can propose some help? Regards, Veni Markovski, Chairmain, the Internet Society - Bulgaria, http://www.isoc.bg, http://www.bulgaria.com/isoc/, http://www.bol.bg/isoc/ phone: (+359-2) 9809666, phone/fax (+359-2) 805012 mailing address: p.o.box 71, Sofia 1164, Bulgaria *** Because e-mail can be altered electronically, the integrity of this communication cannot be guaranteed. -------- Logged at Tue Feb 3 10:37:11 MET 1998 ---------