Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed?

Thu Oct 1 06:53:17 UTC 1998

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.
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