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

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Thu Oct 1 18:45:40 1998

Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 18:20:25 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199810010822.AA23310@world.std.com>; from Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com> on Thu, Oct 01, 1998 at 04:22:21AM -0400

On Thu, Oct 01, 1998 at 04:22:21AM -0400, Barry Shein wrote:
> The question isn't so much "does there exist any non-criminal SLD in
> the .to TLD". The question is: Does there exist any legitimate purpose
> for the .to TLD? Such as serving the Kingdom of Tonga or entities
> organized in the Kingdom of Tonga in any way? Or is it just rogue?

Well, someone just offered to ask the king; here's what they should ask:

"Are you satisfied with the behavior of the people to whom you have
delegated the authority to manage your TLD?"

If he is... end of story.

Cheers,
-- jr 'for the _rest_ of us, anyway...' a
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