[19973] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Harkin)
Thu Oct 1 13:00:15 1998
In-Reply-To: <199810010722.AA05081@world.std.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 01:37:01 -0700
To: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>
From: John Harkin <jh@harkin.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
At 12:22 AM -0700 10/1/98, Barry Shein wrote:
>So, to spell it out, the question is not whether or not there are
>non-porn sites in the .to domain. The question is whether or not there
>are any Tongan activities in the Tongan domain? Since the US Consulate
>of the Kingdom of Tonga isn't even a Tongan site one wonders just what
>purpose this domain is serving.
The Tongan consulate in SF *is* Tongan territory, not US. Seems like a
good place to keep a server to keep its traffic off the satellite to me.
Cable and Wireless runs the Internet connection to the islands and their
sites and their customers are in TO. See candw.to.
John
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