I use Network Solutions, because no matter how bad they suck, they still ARE the successor to the original SRI-NIC. (But then I have only one domain, registered in 2000 when you could still register a domain by sending a template to HOSTMASTER(a)INTERNIC.NET, and I will never register other domains because I still believe in the original doctrine of one physical organisation = one domain.) But I miss SRI-NIC soooooo bad! To bring this on topic: does anyone have a copy of the original SRI-NIC software, or at least have any idea about what it was like, what it did it run on, what was it written in, etc? I'm talking about the software that processed templates sent to HOSTMASTER@SRI-NIC, and even to HOSTMASTER(a)INTERNIC.NET as late as 2000, and maintained the original registry database in its original unique super-cool format with those NIC handles (like HARHAN-DOM, IFCTFVAX-HST, MS35906), provided the original WHOIS service, and generated HOSTS.TXT and the TLD zone files. The best hope that I see for Internet is the colonisation of Mars. The good thing about Mars is that the 30 min speed of light delay should prevent any possibility of our present rotten, corrupt, spam,porn-and-Weendoze-filled Internet extending to Mars, and on Mars we'll have a chance to start fresh old ARPA Internet there in its full glory, with TENEX and 4BSD hosts, open relays (we'll have to relay because interplanetary communication back to Earth and to elsewhere will have to be all store and forward, like the good old UUCP), SRI-NIC, HOSTS.TXT, no Yahoo, no AOL, no spam, no porn, no Weendoze lusers on DSL with dynamic IPs! A copy of the original SRI-NIC registry software would be very helpful. MS