[19937] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven J. Sobol)
Thu Oct 1 02:35:22 1998
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 02:14:14 -0400
From: "Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol@nacs.net>
To: Gary R Wright <gwright@connix.com>
Cc: Karl Mueller <karl@best.net>, Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>,
nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199809302154.RAA17411@comet.connix.com>; from Gary R Wright on Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 05:54:02PM -0400
On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 05:54:02PM -0400, Gary R Wright wrote:
> Karl Mueller writes:
> > Clearly, .COM is used for criminal and malicious activities.
> > I propose that we remove it due to abuse.
>
> This points out the legal ambiguity of the global top-level domains.
> At least with the .to domain it is clear who is responsible for
> the domain. With .com, .net, etc. the name space crosses legal
> boundaries inviting all sorts of legal confusion. The legal
> situation could be clarified considerably if the gtld's were moved
> under the country code domains.
Actually, now that I think about it, it is hard for me to come up with
a situation where you could possibly hold a TLD administrator liable for
criminal activities perpetrated by a domain registrant. I'm sure someone
else will come up with something.
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