[20050] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Thu Oct 1 20:04:37 1998
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 19:20:23 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199810010702.AA28446@world.std.com>; from Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com> on Thu, Oct 01, 1998 at 03:02:29AM -0400
On Thu, Oct 01, 1998 at 03:02:29AM -0400, Barry Shein wrote:
> The question was what we should do, not what they should do. For
> example, should we remove their domain from the top level servers if
> it has ceased to serve any legitimate purpose?
<sigh>
Legitimate to _whom_, Barry? It's a _TLD_. It only has to be
"legitimate" to the Administrative Contact in the whois record, as far
as I can see.
> But we can cut off our half of the connection if we feel it is
> primarily malicious and abusive.
"our half of the connection". The link itself is almost certainly
commercial, and the root DNS entries, I strongly suspect, are there in
trust for the IANA, who are the administrative owners of "", to the
extent that there are any, I think.
Cheers,
-- jra
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