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NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! (Was Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Sat Oct 10 11:31:56 1998
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 11:06:44 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.981010091826.14316C-100000@poppa>; from Rich Sena <ras@poppa.clubrich.tiac.net> on Sat, Oct 10, 1998 at 09:21:36AM -0400
On Sat, Oct 10, 1998 at 09:21:36AM -0400, Rich Sena wrote:
> 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.
Please... this is dead; let's let it stay that way,
Cheers,
-- jra
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