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

Steven J. Sobol sjsobol at nacs.net
Thu Oct 1 15:09:05 UTC 1998


On Thu, Oct 01, 1998 at 04:17:12AM -0400, Barry Shein wrote:
> 
> On October 1, 1998 at 02:14 sjsobol at 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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