Thank you for a good lesson to all. Just for completeness, I thought I’d mention another thing that’s going on, sort of a semi-scam. I am a domain reseller, and I own quite a few domains. At the moment I can’t remember the name of the company, but I get alot of emails from them, usually about 60 days before one of my domains is about to expire, warning me that I am in danger of losing my domain if I do not renew. This is of course a true statement, but the company sending the letters is not my registrar. What they are in effect doing is trying to trick you into transferring your domain at best, and at worst are just trying to steal your money. My advice is that anyone who receives one of these letters should look up the “WhoIs” record for their domain, and make sure the letter sender matches the registrar listed at ICANN. These letters look very official, not like sales letters at all, and I bet alot of people could be fooled by them if they don’t take the time to investigate properly.