[19964] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jprovo@ma.ultranet.com)
Thu Oct 1 10:34:37 1998
From: jprovo@ma.ultranet.com
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 10:20:08 -0400 (EDT)
To: nanog@merit.edu
> The specific question was whether or not the .to domain serves any
> useful purpose (such as a TLD for the Kingdom of Tonga) -- is there
> any reason to maintain it in the root servers?
It is Yet Another ISO CC TLD that is being whored out - since domains
became commodities, ISO CCs are now "national resources". Who has a
crystal ball shiny enough to see which (small) country decides to change
its name to get a "better" ISO CC? And how far out that will be?
Another lovely spin-off of pushing the mess up towards the root of
the tree, instead of down to the leaves with further specifity.
"My own opinion, etc etc disclaim disclaim"
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