Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed?
D'Arcy J.M. Cain
darcy at druid.net
Thu Oct 1 12:41:11 UTC 1998
Thus spake Barry Shein
> On September 30, 1998 at 20:03 darcy at druid.net (D'Arcy J. M. Cain) wrote:
> > > > All that proves is someone has a sense of humor. I've seen plenty of
> > > No I think it indicates that a bunch of clowns have taken over what
> > Actually, it proves that they are running the Juniper SMTP and haven't
> Well, maybe you missed the part about the website for the San
> Francisco Consulate of the Kingdom of Tonga (which the US State Dept
> lists as their official presence in the US) being an advertisement for
> a software company.
Uh, no. All I was trying to do was add a little information to the
discussion. If I had known nothing about Juniper but knew something
that explained why you saw an ad on the website I would have addressed
that issue. I wasn't even arguing for or against your position. All I
was trying to do was correct a factual error.
> It was all part of a picture that the .to domain may have ceased to
> serve as a country TLD for the Kingdom of Tonga.
And as I tried to point out, part of the picture was false. Those
messages are the standard ones that come with a particular SMTP daemon.
Not that I am suggesting that there would be something wrong with
having a sense of humour but in this case it was simply a more or less
blind software install.
> What if a country ceased to exist entirely and the domain they were
> using was hijacked by some random, unrelated entity for their own
> malicious purposes? Would that justify decommissioning the TLD
I don't know. I'm not the one making these decisions. Are you?
> (meaning, removing it from the root servers)?
Ok, no need to be patronizing. I think everyone here knows what you mean.
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