Our local paper today picked up the following from Newsday, by Matthew McAllester. "For perhaps the first time in the 27-year history of the vast computer network, Monday will see a culling of 25,000 domain names, the hearts of Internet addresses. The Internet's landlord, InterNIC, is fed up with asking people to pay their annual rents, so their domain names will disappear from the Internet's "White Pages," making them almost impossible to find... Network Solutions will make everything better again for the cyber squatters by restoring their domain names in a day if they come up with the $100 registration fee and, if they've been on the Internet more than two years, a $50 annual rent fee..." Does anyone know if this is likely to cause a large increase in errors or other problems for lists? IP addresses will apparently continue to exist. Will we soon not be able to mail to subscribers at the affected nodes? Thanks for any input. Vickie Banks H-NET Technical Assistance [log in to unmask]