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Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Shein)
Thu Oct 1 14:56:59 1998

Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 14:35:27 -0400
From: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>
To: Andy Walden <andy@enigma.mtco.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.981001012630.11871B-100000@vision.tigerteam.net>


On October 1, 1998 at 01:28 andy@enigma.mtco.com (Andy Walden) wrote:
 > "legit" in I paid $100 for a service, the same as you did when you

that doesn't make it legit, that just might mean you're out $100.


 > contracted the std.com domain. Network abuse needs to be handled on the

No, I registered std.com as a commercial site in the commercial TLD.

And your connection to the Kingdom of Tonga is...?


 > provider/upstream level. Leave the registries alone as they have enough
 > problems as it is. 

I think your opinion might be colored by the possibility of your being
out $100 if the .to domain is decommissioned.

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