Note: I'm not a lawyer, I don't play one on TV, and this isn't legal advice. But it's probably good advice if you think you want to protect your name. Second good advice: you might want to register variations on your name...you wouldn't want prospective puppy owners to type in tipandchip.com and run smack dab into some porno site! (although that's what seems to happen on most misspellings these days...) Warrick