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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 Thu, Oct 01, 1998 at 03:22:55AM -0400, Barry Shein wrote: > No, a typical method of judgement used where something won't likely be > 100% one way or the other is the "preponderance of evidence". Agreed, and I don't think you have that, either! > More importantly, in the case of a gTLD, does it serve any useful > purpose for which it was issued, overall? > > Since the examples you've given don't seem to me to be entities > organized within the Kingdom of Tonga, even if they're not porn > sites*, what purpose is being served by keeping .to in the root > servers? It's already been pointed out that there IS no one-to-one mapping of domain names to geographical areas. What's your point? > * Porn per se was never the touchstone issue OK - I am glad we agree on this. -- Anyone who spams me will be subject to torture by Jake, my killer attack hedgehog, and/or Lizzy and Junior, my man-eating iguanas.
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