1.   But some entrepreneurs, hoping to build a business by creating domain registries, are calling for a more open and competitive system sooner rather than later.

2.   Policing costs could be reduced if top-level domain registries made their databases easy to search, so that potential conflicts were automatically identified.

3.   These would be controlled by new domain registries that would compete with each other and with InterNIC.

4.   To determine the winner, the domain registries will use a lottery.