[19962] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sam Hayes Merritt, III)
Thu Oct 1 09:30:31 1998
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 08:05:50 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Sam Hayes Merritt, III" <harter@feeding.frenzy.com>
To: list@inet-access.net
cc: "Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol@nacs.net>, Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>,
inet-access@earth.com, nanog@merit.edu,
domain-policy@lists.internic.net, com-priv@psi.com,
publicaffairs@panet.us-state.gov
In-Reply-To: <199810010705.AA29437@world.std.com>
On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Barry Shein wrote:
> The problem is mass spammers operating from within that domain forging
> legitimate host names into their spam.
> They're advertising a porn site within the .to domain.
And?
.com has this problem too
So does .tj and .cc and .nu at times
A registry/registar should not have to police their domains, that isn't
their purpose in life. You are advocating taking away a countried ccTLD
because they are using it at as a gTLD.
http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc1591.txt:
In cases when there are persistent problems with the proper
operation of a domain, the delegation may be revoked, and possibly
delegated to another designated manager.
But that paragraph is located with describing how the TLD should
technically be operated.
Sam
