It seems I've read the rfc1591 most recently: This means that the same rules are applied to all requests, all requests must be processed in a non-discriminatory fashion, and academic and commercial (and other) users are treated on an equal basis. No bias shall be shown regarding requests that may come from customers of some other business related to the manager -- e.g., no preferential service for customers of a particular data network provider. There can be no requirement that a particular mail system (or other application), protocol, or product be used. and more: Significantly interested parties in the domain should agree that the designated manager is the appropriate party. The IANA tries to have any contending parties reach agreement among themselves, and generally takes no action to change things unless all the contending parties agree; only in cases where the designated manager has substantially mis-behaved would the IANA step in. However, it is also appropriate for interested parties to have some voice in selecting the designated manager. There are two cases where the IANA and the central IR may establish a new top-level domain and delegate only a portion of it: (1) there are contending parties that cannot agree, or (2) the applying party may not be able to represent or serve the whole country. The later case sometimes arises when a party outside a country is trying to be helpful in getting networking started in a country -- this is sometimes called a "proxy" DNS service. === Would you like to comment on that?? It's so obvious, yet you're trying to tell me we are wrong?? === and here's ripe: As for "special case" registries as defined above, it is recommended that where such a registry charges for service, it should, in addition to complying with the recommendations listed above: relate charges to costs of operation and apply all revenues to such costs; regularly publish a budget of its anticipated operating costs and revenue; publish guidelines and apply these uniformly; ensure equality of access to registration services; aim to achieve consensus within the community it serves as to the disposal of any surplus revenues; regularly publish accounts of income and expenditure ; refrain from using their unique position as leverage in any other business venture. I don't really want to comment on that - read it, then visit http://www.bol.bg/protest/ It's not me alone; the .bg TLDA is using their (his, rather) position to gain business from competitors (example was given at the InnternetExpo '98 in Sofia by www.onlin.bg about a customer of theirs which domain name was not registered in time, because they didn't want the .bg TLDA to be their provider), etc., etc., etc., etc....) 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) 9806431 mailing address: p.o.box 71, Sofia 1164, Bulgaria -------- Logged at Fri Aug 28 19:23:36 MET DST 1998 ---------