[20366] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Sena)
Sat Oct 10 11:16:44 1998
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 09:21:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: Rich Sena <ras@poppa.clubrich.tiac.net>
To: Joe Shaw <jshaw@insync.net>
cc: list@inet-access.net, inet-access@earth.com, nanog@merit.edu,
domain-policy@lists.internic.net, com-priv@psi.com,
publicaffairs@panet.us-state.gov
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.05.9809301435050.27911-100000@vellocet.insync.net>
That's all fine and spiffy Joe but being cutesy isn't the point - it is
fairly obvious that this is not the "Kingdon of Tonga" (as it may be a
principality or sovereign nation) but a for profit agency or group selling
domains that they have absolute control over (much like the
NIC - hmmm mebbe I'll reconsider my argument) - Now that in and of itself
isn't illegal *but* they shouldn't have a top level principality domain.
On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Joe Shaw wrote:
> All that proves is someone has a sense of humor. I've seen plenty of
> sites with these types of greetings, and they aren't hard to setup. I had
> a friend who setup his SMTP server to say:
>
> 220 mail.host.com SMTP If you don't know what your doing, you don't need
> to be here. And if you do know what you're doing, you really don't need
> to be here.
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