[19967] 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 11:19:24 1998
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 11:09:05 -0400
From: "Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol@nacs.net>
To: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>
Cc: "Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol@nacs.net>, Gary R Wright <gwright@connix.com>,
Karl Mueller <karl@best.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199810010817.AA22126@world.std.com>; from Barry Shein on Thu, Oct 01, 1998 at 04:17:12AM -0400
On Thu, Oct 01, 1998 at 04:17:12AM -0400, Barry Shein wrote:
>
> On October 1, 1998 at 02:14 sjsobol@nacs.net (Steven J. Sobol) wrote:
> > 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.
>
> 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?
That question has been addressed by a number of people already.
You also brought up the issue of "criminal" activity.
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