I consider the recent proliferation of gTLDs, such as .name, .aero, etc, to be a blatant money grab by ICANN, of benefit to nobody else, possibly excepting spammers. (I know of one incident in which someone tried to register a new TLD and was turned down because they couldn't figure out how he was going to monetize it. I don't know whether it didn't occur to them that he didn't want to or whether they actively wanted to avoid non-monetized TLDs, but either way is a problem.) I consider them part of the precipitate, blocking them as I see them. If you are a non-spammer who got suckered into supporting ICANN's money grab, well, I'm sorry to have to tell you, but that's what I consider it to be, and I consider rejecting them to be one of the few things I can do to exert a little pressure towards discouraging it. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B (and postmaster for rodents-montreal.org)