Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue an

Thu Oct 1 19:28:28 UTC 1998

You know, Mr Gullichsen, you can answer every complaint you get with
"why didn't you tell us this before!", but it's not fooling anyone.

So why was the Consulate's web page changed from an advertisement for
a software company to something having to do with the Kingdom of Tonga
in the past couple of hours?

	-b

On October 2, 1998 at 07:50 egullich at tonic.to (Eric Gullichsen) wrote:
 > 
 > Mr. Shein:
 > 
 > > With all due respect, I think your management of the .to domain is a
 > > hazard to the internet and should be ceased immediately. By your gross
 > > negligence you are providing safe haven to criminals.
 > 
 > I'm sorry, but your reply leaves me somewhat mystified.
 > 
 > If you could be more specific as to what acts of "gross negligence"
 > you believe Tonic is guilty of in its management of the .TO top level
 > domain, we would take your opinions under serious evaluation and
 > see if there are ways we could improve the operation of our registry.
 > 
 > > As of this minute, about 2:30PM EDT 10/1/98, the domain-hijacker
 > > spammers have a web address in the .to domain and are
 > > spamming/domain-forging to advertise this, as they have been
 > > doing for weeks.
 > 
 > In my last posting, I brought to your attention the existence of
 > our pioneering antispam policy.  If you could be specific as to
 > which "domain-hijacker spammers have a web address in the .to domain"
 > and send a copy of the spam(s) to hostmaster at tonic.to,
 > we would be able to warn the domain name holders, and/or
 > terminate their domain name registration if they are in repeated
 > violation of our antispam policy.
 > 
 > Regards,
 > 
 > 
 > - Eric Gullichsen
 >   Tonic Corporation
 >   Kingdom of Tonga Network Information Center
 >   http://www.tonic.to
 >   Email: egullich at tonic.to