Verisign recently added 3 new fields to the WHOIS records, namely: Status, Creation Date, Expiration Date Good news for all of us who've been monitoring some domain and a heads up for everyone with a domain to be wary of onlookers. more on the status codes: http://www.zvon.org/tmRFC/RFC2832/Output/chapter6.html hmm... just 8 more months (+ registrar grace period) till I can try and register my own name. aleem [ http://aleembawany.com/ ]