At 11:50 PM 12/18/1999 , you wrote: >Hi again, > >How do I find out in what country/city such sites as *com, *edu, *mit allocated... >Yes it's too easy to find a place of edu and mit sites (they links to university etc) >but what about a place of firm or corporation? In what places such portals >like Yahoo, Lycos, Altavista allocates? Most of them are in US but I doubt that all. There are a great many sources for this, one of the best is: http://www.networksolutions.com/ Click on the "WHOIS Lookup" Another good sources is: http://www.DomainSearch.com/ If you wish to do a reverse DNS lookup, try this one: http://www.osilab.ch/services/dns_e.htm Bob Wright The NOSPIN Group "Hold No Punches.." Rode brings you great shareware/freeware programs with his honest opinions in this weekly column. http://nospin.com/rode