The October 2006 Verisign monthly report indicates that 34,017,562 gross deletes were processed during the month in .com -- see http://www.icann.org/tlds/monthly-reports/com-net/verisign-200610.pdf This means that every single day over a million domain names are kept out of the reach of the average potential registrant as a result of the efforts of professional speculators that are taking advantage of ICANN's Add Grace policy loophole. There have been many calls to eliminate or seriously revise this Add Grace period policy, yet the GNSO has not taken this issue on board; neither has the ALAC advanced this issue to the GNSO even after having received a staff-prepared Issues report six months ago. (1) What is the NA ALS view on this issue? (2) What is the NA ALS view on the way this issue has been managed by the ALAC? Can we trust the ALAC to act in our best interest or even in a timely manner? ____________________________________________________________________________________ Need Mail bonding? Go to the Yahoo! Mail Q&A for great tips from Yahoo! Answers users. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396546091