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

Thu Oct 1 22:15:08 UTC 1998

On Thu, Oct 01, 1998 at 10:59:23AM -0400, Gary R Wright wrote:
> hard to challenge them in a legal context).  Of course it works
> the other way also, if someone from the Kingdom of Tonga were to
> read this thread and decide they *didn't* want to register spam
> and porn havens then perhaps it would be a good thing if that
> government (i.e., registry) had the authority to say who was in
> and who was out of the .TO domain.

Is anyone at all suggesting that the Kingdom _does not_ have the
authority to do that?

I believe Barry's original argument was that he didn't think they
_should_ have that authority (or, more accurately, that someone ought
to be able to override their judgement on the fact), but perhaps I
misunderstood him...

Cheers,
-- jra
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