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

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Shein)
Thu Oct 1 15:32:44 1998

Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 15:20:10 -0400
From: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>
To: Aaron Goldblatt <aglists@goldblatt.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199809011302.0153122.7@marvin.csgint.com>


Has Aaron read a word of this discussion? How can he reply over and
over and not have understood a word of it.

As of last time I checked, around 2:30PM EDT 10/1/98, the porn site
involved in spamming and domain hijacking etc had an operational
address within the .to name space, and they continue to spam and
hijack/forge, the bounces and complaints are still coming in.

On October 1, 1998 at 13:00 aglists@goldblatt.net (Aaron Goldblatt) wrote:
 > >The server with the tongan consulate net address appears to be a web
 > >server for some software company and has nothing to do with Tonga as
 > >far as I can tell.  Is it located at the Tongan consulate?
 > 
 > Why is this your business?  Are you responsible for policing the .to TLD,
 > or are you responsible for administering the network at the Tongan San
 > Francisco Consulate?
 > 
 > If the answer is no to both of the above (and I suspect it is), get off it.
 > 
 > ag

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