[Rubber Duck]

Originally Posted by touchring

Tucows bought a big surname portfolio not long ago:

http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/a.../15/c4758.html

Thanks, very interesting, but are there really "thousands of the most common surnames" and how many of these are actually transliterations of how people actually write their own names?

Am I correct in assuming that name value is roughly in proportion to incidents of useage?