Online commerce companies usually hold their registration databases in high regard as an indication that their potential customers are committed enough to provide personal information.

"The more we looked at it, the more we realized that the value that people are putting on these registration databases is hugely overstated," he said.

The one hundred year domain name registration would not be in the official registration database.

If your products are not in the registration database, you won't be on the notification mailing list.

CCR is the primary registration database for the Federal Government.

In 2006, a comprehensive registration database was made available online of the University of Lethbridge collections.

The registration database now indicates the name is available from BuyDomains .

Professor Selker, an expert on how people use technology, said security was a less pressing concern than mistakes in registration databases, poor ballot design and inadequate polling procedures.

Before domain name auctions took off a few months ago, Mr. Schwartz searched registration databases and made offers to owners through E-mail.

All but 27 of Connecticut's 169 municipalities are already hooked up to a registration database run by the secretary of the state's office.