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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 October 1, 1998 at 14:08 [email protected] (Aaron Goldblatt) wrote: > > > Barry, this seems sort of silly. They have a stated abuse policy. You > [...] > >Something is very, very wrong with the Tongan domain and its > >management. They're not removing criminal domain-hijacking spammers, > >they're just letting them change their name as far as I can tell. > > Maybe because you haven't followed their abuse policy. Wow. Aaron: Clearly we're talking about what to do in reaction to some of the worst kinds of abusers on the net, second perhaps only to outright crackers and smurfers, and the mismanaged resources they exploit. We're talking about people who send tens of thousands, at least, of unsolicited email messages daily, many with explicit language in the Subject headers, advertising a porn site address in the .to domain. In addition, these messages have From: addresses forged into them with others' legitimate domain names, soas to cause the owners of that domain to be pummelled day and night with bounces and complaints. Judging from the actual behavior, which is indisputable, these criminals are finding the .to domain to be a convenient haven to operate out of, probably due to the mismanagement (I'm not really accusing those involved with .to of anything more than possible mismanagement) of the .to domain as much as anything else. For example, it appears they, whoever is administering this .to domain (and it's apparently not Tonga), have absolutely no idea who is creating domains in their space, and will shut off an abusing domain and a few minutes later give the same people another domain. Now, explain to us again exactly what your interest in defending these people so strenuously? I don't get it. These appear to be some of the worst vermin on the net and are enormous time sink, and are being aided and abetted by what appears to be gross mismanagement, at best, and yet there you are ready in a second to leap to their defense? Why? -- -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*
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