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Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed?
From: "Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol () nacs net>
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 11:08:16 -0400
On Thu, Oct 01, 1998 at 03:22:55AM -0400, Barry Shein wrote:
No, a typical method of judgement used where something won't likely be 100% one way or the other is the "preponderance of evidence".
Agreed, and I don't think you have that, either!
More importantly, in the case of a gTLD, does it serve any useful purpose for which it was issued, overall? Since the examples you've given don't seem to me to be entities organized within the Kingdom of Tonga, even if they're not porn sites*, what purpose is being served by keeping .to in the root servers?
It's already been pointed out that there IS no one-to-one mapping of domain names to geographical areas. What's your point?
* Porn per se was never the touchstone issue
OK - I am glad we agree on this. -- Anyone who spams me will be subject to torture by Jake, my killer attack hedgehog, and/or Lizzy and Junior, my man-eating iguanas.
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- Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed?, (continued)
- Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed? Stephen Sprunk (Oct 01)
- Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed? Barry Shein (Oct 01)
- Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed? Jared Mauch (Oct 01)
- Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed? mikem (Oct 01)
- Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed? Rich Sena (Oct 10)
- Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed? Aaron Goldblatt (Oct 01)
- Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed? Aaron Goldblatt (Oct 01)
- Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed? Barry Shein (Oct 01)
- Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed? Aaron Goldblatt (Oct 01)
- Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed? Michael Dillon (Oct 02)
- Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed? Barry Shein (Oct 01)
- Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed? D'Arcy J.M. Cain (Oct 01)
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- Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed? Jay R. Ashworth (Oct 01)
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- Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed? Jay R. Ashworth (Oct 01)
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