...and the shape of things to come you think? So Verisign is kvetching on a 1% delta, actual vs. projection! Look at the DomainNameWire numbers keenly; they have a longer run and are perhaps more instructive to the future. BTW and for recognition, my friend Evan [Leibovitch] has been telling everybody for awhile now the bloodbath in new GTLD - in the domain registration business -is coming..... http://domainnamewire.com/2012/10/26/for-verisign-its-2009-all-over-again/ - Carlton ============================== Carlton A Samuels Mobile: 876-818-1799 *Strategy, Planning, Governance, Assessment & Turnaround* =============================