Alan, The tasting phenomenon became manifest in February of 2005 when we saw the delete figures jump by one million (although there was one earlier blip in the figures in August of 2003 when Yesnic dropped 628,000 names in a single month). Prior to February 2005, the average ratio of deletes to active registrations floated at around 2% (normal attrition?) -- currently this ratio is at 79.9% The table below should be of help to those getting acquainted with the subject -- source is the ICANN monthly registry reports: .com & .net GROSS DELETES Quantity Month 57,732,289 03-07 55,794,877 02-07 47,824,131 01-07 41,091,749 12-06 35,015,877 11-06 36,210,711 10-06 36,066,561 09-06 35,731,903 08-06 31,904,189 07-06 32,060,586 06-06 34,114,086 05-06 34,223,433 04-06 32,866,971 03-06 23,644,523 02-06 26,701,798 01-06 29,457,617 12-05 26,439,646 11-05 21,667,963 10-05 14,233,772 09-05 10,454,849 08-05 12,659,467 07-05 10,714,766 06-05 7,912,737 05-05 3,236,640 04-05 2,541,295 03-05 1,601,883 02-05 678,215 01-05 718,469 12-04 640,815 11-04 630,199 10-04 630,204 09-04 597,915 08-04 607,317 07-04 716,717 06-04 747,450 05-04 775,523 04-04 699,799 03-04 531,702 02-04 527,852 01-04 541,396 12-03 533,603 11-03 545,614 10-03 557,411 09-03 1,257,714 08-03 605,614 07-03 ____________________________________________________________________________________ Choose the right car based on your needs. Check out Yahoo! Autos new Car Finder tool. http://autos.yahoo.com/carfinder/