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Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should beremoved?

  • From: Sam Hayes Merritt, III
  • Date: Thu Oct 01 09:40:18 1998 
On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Barry Shein wrote:

> The problem is mass spammers operating from within that domain forging
> legitimate host names into their spam.
> They're advertising a porn site within the .to domain.

And?
.com has this problem too
So does .tj and .cc and .nu at times
A registry/registar should not have to police their domains, that isn't
their purpose in life.  You are advocating taking away a countried ccTLD
because they are using it at as a gTLD.

http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc1591.txt:

      In cases when there are persistent problems with the proper
      operation of a domain, the delegation may be revoked, and possibly
      delegated to another designated manager.

But that paragraph is located with describing how the TLD should
technically be operated.



Sam