in more than a single province. I doubt the large company operating under my surname is very impressed with this. However, under the rules in effect the magnitude of their claim is of no concern or threat to me. One guy who responds to his e-mail and takes on a project under our joint identity will probably allow me to slip under the bar once again. Since this confession leaves me somewhat vulnerable to having my eye plucked out and swallowed, I might add that I obtained this domain with the intent of using it to promote and give away an open source toolkit which I am in the process of developing. If they someday manage to think in less geographical terms, I might ultimately enjoy a legitimate entitlement. That an enterprise such as mine generates no revenue is not likely to be viewed as a liability since it upholds a venerated Canadian tradition dating back at least as far the Hudson's Bay company. Strange how you pretend to fear that the Americans would copy this nonsense when they already have such a fine system in their own national character under the auspices of ICANN. Bert Until now, the University of British Columbia was doing all domain name registrations for free. As you can imagine, the volunteer work got a bit heavy. I believe that this was the primary motivation for the move to commercial domain name registration - not, as you suggest, domain name disputes. Although that may have