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Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed?
From: "Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer () mhsc com>
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 23:53:17 -0700
At 08:48 PM 9/30/98 -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 05:16:50PM -0400, Barry Shein wrote:But as part of the whole picture, that Tonga's domain seems to be used as nothing but a "safe harbor" for porn sites engaged in criminal activity and even their own supposed govt consulate comes up as an ad for a software company etc, it would seem to indicate that this domain, .to, is not being used as a legitimate country TLD, is not being managed by the people it was assigned to for the purpose it was assigned, etc.This raises a qustion I was hoping we could avoid for quite a long time: Who is in a position of authority to pass judgement on whether the assigned authority over the .to top-level domain should "be allowed" to register such people in it's domain? Is there a policy on the root domain? Who enforces this? Who owns it?
There isn't one, there shouldn't be one, and I will resist any attempts to put one there. ___________________________________________________ Roeland M.J. Meyer, ISOC (InterNIC RM993) e-mail: <mailto:rmeyer () mhsc com>rmeyer () mhsc com Internet phone: hawk.mhsc.com Personal web pages: <http://www.mhsc.com/~rmeyer>www.mhsc.com/~rmeyer Company web-site: <http://www.mhsc.com/>www.mhsc.com/ ___________________________________________ I bet the human brain is a kludge. -- Marvin Minsky
Current thread:
- Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed? Roeland M.J. Meyer (Sep 30)
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- Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed? Roeland M.J. Meyer (Oct 01)
- Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed? Roeland M.J. Meyer (Oct 01)
- Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed? Barry Shein (Oct 01)
- Change begins with the self (was Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed?) J.D. Falk (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)
- Who makes policy?, was (Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely , rogue and should be removed?) Chris Kilbourn (Oct 01)
- Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed? Peter Stemwedel (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? Dean Anderson (Oct 01)
- Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed? Dean Anderson (Oct 02)