I know a gentleman who runs an ICANN accredited registrar and if I had enough interest, I think we may be able to take advantage of his registry connections. I know that snapnames pays all the different registrars a fixed price for domains registered through that particular registrar. I have talked to my contact and he is willing to give me access to a good portion of his connections to the third pool. I would need the assitance of someone that has a script that would constantly query and automatically reg names from the central registry. I am willing to put together a couple of dedicated servers, get a direct connection to a large internet pipe. The script must be multi-threaded and we will probably want to run a few instances of it 24/7 in order to get the most of these connections. If you have such a script and have access to a program that will generate fresh lists of dropping names, we should talk.