The way you remind us of the history of the Internet is quite interesiting: --------------------------------------------------------- Postel wanted all top level domains to be generic categories like .com and .org, but some European (whose political mentality apparently had not caught up with the Internet) insisted on having a TLD for his country. This proved to be a terrible idea, as it symbolically linked DNS assignments to national governments. That linkage started to come back and haunt the Internet in 1999 and we are still working out the consequences. ------------------------------------------------------- Could you please remind us by the way what happened to .gov, .mil and .edu? Are they today really as "generic" .com, .net and .org you mentioned? If some Indian, Japanese, Iranian, Spanish or Cuban citizen (for example) wanted to register their domain name under those TLDs, do you think they would be allowed to?