[20056] 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 20:46:04 1998
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 19:43:36 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199810011823.AA10643@world.std.com>; from Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com> on Thu, Oct 01, 1998 at 02:23:30PM -0400
On Thu, Oct 01, 1998 at 02:23:30PM -0400, Barry Shein wrote:
> On October 1, 1998 at 11:09 memory@blank.org (Nathan J. Mehl) wrote:
> > Barry, this seems sort of silly. They have a stated abuse policy. You
> > have evidence that one of their registrants is operating in contravention
> > to that policy. What on earth is preventing you from making the obvious
> > phone call?
>
> Gosh that sounds so good Nathan.
>
> Unfortunately, as of right this minute, 10/1 at 2:20PM EDT, these porn
> domain forgers are back on the Tonga site and spamming away again
> forging our domain name into their spams.
>
> Something is very, very wrong with the Tongan domain and its
> management. They're not removing criminal domain-hijacking spammers,
> they're just letting them change their name as far as I can tell.
Damnit, Barry:
DID YOU MAKE THE CALL?
Cjeers,
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