|
North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed?
On September 30, 1998 at 20:03 [email protected] (D'Arcy J. M. Cain) wrote: > Thus spake Barry Shein > > On September 30, 1998 at 14:40 [email protected] (Joe Shaw) wrote: > > > All that proves is someone has a sense of humor. I've seen plenty of > > No I think it indicates that a bunch of clowns have taken over what > > advertises itself as the official US office of the Consulate of the > > Actually, it proves that they are running the Juniper SMTP and haven't > bothered to change the default messages. Connect to the smtp port > at druid.net and it will issue the same messages. Well, maybe you missed the part about the website for the San Francisco Consulate of the Kingdom of Tonga (which the US State Dept lists as their official presence in the US) being an advertisement for a software company. It was all part of a picture that the .to domain may have ceased to serve as a country TLD for the Kingdom of Tonga. 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)? -- -Barry Shein Software Tool & Die | [email protected] | http://www.world.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 617-739-0202 | Login: 617-739-WRLD The World | Public Access Internet | Since 1989 *oo*
|