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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 11:09:05 -0400

On Thu, Oct 01, 1998 at 04:17:12AM -0400, Barry Shein wrote:

On October 1, 1998 at 02:14 sjsobol () nacs net (Steven J. Sobol) wrote:
 > Actually, now that I think about it, it is hard for me to come up with
 > a situation where you could possibly hold a TLD administrator liable for
 > criminal activities perpetrated by a domain registrant. I'm sure someone
 > else will come up with something.

The specific question was whether or not the .to domain serves any
useful purpose (such as a TLD for the Kingdom of Tonga) -- is there
any reason to maintain it in the root servers?

That question has been addressed by a number of people already.
You also brought up the issue of "criminal" activity.



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