[20057] 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 20:46:07 1998
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 19:42:09 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199810010800.AA17239@world.std.com>; from Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com> on Thu, Oct 01, 1998 at 04:00:20AM -0400
On Thu, Oct 01, 1998 at 04:00:20AM -0400, Barry Shein wrote:
> What if a country ceased to exist entirely and the domain they were
> using was hijacked by some random, unrelated entity for their own
> malicious purposes? Would that justify decommissioning the TLD
> (meaning, removing it from the root servers)?
Here, at last, is a useful question. What _is_ the basis for the
activation of an ISO 3166 2-letter ccTLD; that is, how does one get on
and off ISO's list?
Cheers,
-- jra
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