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36. For example, we will have to take into account the desire of participants in online communications for pseudonymity. This will affect the extent to which information about the applicant's identity must be disclosed in order to obtain a valid address registration. See David G. Post, Pooling Intellectual Capital: Thoughts on Anonymity, Pseudonymity, and Limited Liability in Cyberspace, UNIV. CHIC. LEGAL FORUM (forthcoming), available at http://www-law.lib.uchicago.edu/forum/ (discussing the value of pseudonymouscommunications); A. Michael Froomkin, Flood Control on the Information Ocean: Living With Anonymity, Digital Cash, and Distributed Databases (Dec. 4, 1995) (unpublished manuscript, on file with the Stanford Law Review) (exploring the use and possible regulation of computer-aided anonymity) available at http://www.law.miami.edu/~froomkin; A. Michael Froomkin, Anonymity and ItsEnmities, 1995 J. of Online Law art. 4 available at http://www.law.cornell.edu/jol/jol.table.html (discussing the mechanics ofanonymity and how it affects the creation of pseudonymous personalities and communication on the Net). And any registration and conflict-resolution scheme will have to take into account the particular ways in which Internet addresses and names are viewed in the marketplace. If shorter names are valued more highly (jones.com being more valuable than jones@isp.members.directory.com), this new form of "domain envy" will have to be considered in developing applicable policy.