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Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue an
From: Barry Shein <bzs () world std com>
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 15:28:28 -0400
You know, Mr Gullichsen, you can answer every complaint you get with "why didn't you tell us this before!", but it's not fooling anyone. So why was the Consulate's web page changed from an advertisement for a software company to something having to do with the Kingdom of Tonga in the past couple of hours? -b On October 2, 1998 at 07:50 egullich () tonic to (Eric Gullichsen) wrote:
Mr. Shein:With all due respect, I think your management of the .to domain is a hazard to the internet and should be ceased immediately. By your gross negligence you are providing safe haven to criminals.I'm sorry, but your reply leaves me somewhat mystified. If you could be more specific as to what acts of "gross negligence" you believe Tonic is guilty of in its management of the .TO top level domain, we would take your opinions under serious evaluation and see if there are ways we could improve the operation of our registry.As of this minute, about 2:30PM EDT 10/1/98, the domain-hijacker spammers have a web address in the .to domain and are spamming/domain-forging to advertise this, as they have been doing for weeks.In my last posting, I brought to your attention the existence of our pioneering antispam policy. If you could be specific as to which "domain-hijacker spammers have a web address in the .to domain" and send a copy of the spam(s) to hostmaster () tonic to, we would be able to warn the domain name holders, and/or terminate their domain name registration if they are in repeated violation of our antispam policy. Regards, - Eric Gullichsen Tonic Corporation Kingdom of Tonga Network Information Center http://www.tonic.to Email: egullich () tonic to
Current thread:
- Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue an Eric Gullichsen (Oct 01)
- Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue an Barry Shein (Oct 01)
- Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue an Steven J. Sobol (Oct 01)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue an Eric Gullichsen (Oct 01)
- Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue an Barry Shein (Oct 01)
- Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue an Stephen Sprunk (Oct 01)
- Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue an Barry Shein (Oct 01)