i think i understand the issue, although all the abbreviations have me a bit on the confused side. who gets what domain name seems to be a first come first serve type bag, but with all the infinite possibilities i can't see how someone would be unable to find at least one available name that would work for them. i came to this blog via your article on music copyrights because i wrote a song that uses one line each from about ten different historically recognizable songs by various artists in the context of my own commentary, and was hoping to find further insight on the "fair use" issue. but you go over quite a few serious questions about where technology is going. my personal view on filesharing is that although it may be unfair to a few individuals its continued use will ultimately be good for the spread of good music and limiting for the power of big companies to make crappy cookie-cutter music and have the public blindly swallow it. if it's a choice between paying for bad music and getting good music for free...