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

Thu Oct 1 23:42:09 UTC 1998

On Thu, Oct 01, 1998 at 04:00:20AM -0400, Barry Shein wrote:
> 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
> (meaning, removing it from the root servers)?

Here, at last, is a useful question.  What _is_ the basis for the
activation of an ISO 3166 2-letter ccTLD; that is, how does one get on
and off ISO's list?

Cheers,
-- jra
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