[19899] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick Greenwell)
Wed Sep 30 17:55:01 1998
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 14:39:53 -0700 (PDT)
From: Patrick Greenwell <patrick@namesecure.com>
To: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>
cc: Joe Shaw <jshaw@insync.net>, list@inet-access.net, inet-access@earth.com,
nanog@merit.edu, domain-policy@lists.internic.net, com-priv@psi.com,
publicaffairs@panet.us-state.gov
In-Reply-To: <199809302116.AA02819@world.std.com>
On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Barry Shein wrote:
> No I think it indicates that a bunch of clowns have taken over what
> advertises itself as the official US office of the Consulate of the
> Kingdom of Tonga. As I said, also take a look at the web page on that
> site and tell me what it has to do with the Consulate of the Kingdom
> of Tonga.
>
> Alone it would mean little.
>
> But as part of the whole picture, that Tonga's domain seems to be used
> as nothing but a "safe harbor" for porn sites engaged in criminal
> activity and even their own supposed govt consulate comes up as an ad
> for a software company etc, it would seem to indicate that this
> domain, .to, is not being used as a legitimate country TLD
Please define "a legitimate country TLD." Please point me to any documents
from those assigning country code TLDs that supports your definition.
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