Dear Nick and Patrick, STLD contracts (such as .travel) have the following clause: Section VIII.5 Assignment and Subcontracting. "Any assignment of this Agreement shall be effective only upon written agreement by the assignee with the other party to assume the assigning party's obligations under this Agreement. Moreover, neither party may assign this Agreement without the prior written approval of the other party, which shall not be unreasonably withheld. Notwithstanding the foregoing, (i) Registry may assign this Agreement as part of the transfer of its registry business if such transfer and assignment are approved in advance by ICANN in accordance with its procedures" We have previously taken note of "assignment" being used in .pro when Hostway replaced RegistryPro. What's not clear to me are the "procedures" referenced above... are these available for review somewhere? I would think that the element of a "Sponsor" would complicate matters somewhat... do the above procedures tackle the sponsorship issue? regards, Danny ___________________________________________________________________________________ You snooze, you lose. Get messages ASAP with AutoCheck in the all-new Yahoo! Mail Beta. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/newmail_html.html