[19911] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Wed Sep 30 21:06:17 1998
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 20:48:44 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199809302116.AA02819@world.std.com>; from Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com> on Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 05:16:50PM -0400
On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 05:16:50PM -0400, Barry Shein wrote:
> 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, is not
> being managed by the people it was assigned to for the purpose it was
> assigned, etc.
This raises a qustion I was hoping we could avoid for quite a long
time:
Who is in a position of authority to pass judgement on whether the
assigned authority over the .to top-level domain should "be allowed" to
register such people in it's domain? Is there a policy on the root
domain? Who enforces this? Who owns it?
Cheers,
-- jra
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