[20049] 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 20:03:52 1998
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 19:28:20 -0400
From: "Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol@nacs.net>
To: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>
Cc: "Alex \"Mr. Worf\" Yuriev" <alex@netaxs.com>,
Andy Walden <andy@enigma.mtco.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199810010822.AA23310@world.std.com>; from Barry Shein on Thu, Oct 01, 1998 at 04:22:21AM -0400
On Thu, Oct 01, 1998 at 04:22:21AM -0400, Barry Shein wrote:
> In high school some upper-class students would sell incoming freshman
> swimming pool passes. Unfortunately, our high school had no swimming
> pool. But I guess if they paid for them they were "legitimate" pool
> passes.
If the Tongan government were taking payments for domains that were
subsequently never registered, you'd have a point.
> 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?
Would you even be raising these questions if someone using a .TO domain
hadn't forged a std.com address?
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