[19966] 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 11:18:42 1998
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 11:08:16 -0400
From: "Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol@nacs.net>
To: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>
Cc: "Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol@nacs.net>, Karl Mueller <karl@best.net>,
nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199810010722.AA05081@world.std.com>; from Barry Shein on Thu, Oct 01, 1998 at 03:22:55AM -0400
On Thu, Oct 01, 1998 at 03:22:55AM -0400, Barry Shein wrote:
> No, a typical method of judgement used where something won't likely be
> 100% one way or the other is the "preponderance of evidence".
Agreed, and I don't think you have that, either!
> More importantly, in the case of a gTLD, does it serve any useful
> purpose for which it was issued, overall?
>
> Since the examples you've given don't seem to me to be entities
> organized within the Kingdom of Tonga, even if they're not porn
> sites*, what purpose is being served by keeping .to in the root
> servers?
It's already been pointed out that there IS no one-to-one mapping of
domain names to geographical areas. What's your point?
> * Porn per se was never the touchstone issue
OK - I am glad we agree on this.
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