As a company which provides email and other internet services maybe if the new gTLDs agreements included some serious commitment to avoid allowing the use of these gTLDs for massive spamming and phishing etc maybe the service providers would have been more enthusiastic about acceptance. Unfortunately the opposite is true and many of these new gTlDs can safely be blocked in entirety, they just spew spam etc, with no customer complaints. I'll guess these new gTLD registrars/registries would complain that's not equitable since it's not required of other TLDs. Which is all a very nice argument to make sitting in an airless room somewhere. So instead they tend to get blocked and ignored, or at least marked "suspicious" by spam filters, but equitably! If I had a nickel for every ISP who said or recommended "oh just block all .pick-a-nGTLD, you and your customers will be happier"... -- -Barry Shein Software Tool & Die | bzs@TheWorld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: +1 617-STD-WRLD | 800-THE-WRLD The World: Since 1989 | A Public Information Utility | *oo*