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?
Nobody warned me that Jim Fleming had a brother! Ayeiii.... We now return you to TongaV8, in progress.. Karl > >Not clear. Obviously .to is being run in a very unusual way. Among >other things, I guess the spammers can instantly sign up new domains >for their web sites as fast as .to can take them down (which isn't >very fast, but for discussion's sake.) > >That's quite unusual, and the entire activity seems to have nothing to >do with the Kingdom of Tonga or any entitites within that country >except inasmuch as they seem to look the other way and probably get >some money for it (others have claimed this.) > >But the proof is in the pudding, ADULTSIGHTS.COM is finding the way >the .to domain is being managed very useful to their mass spamming and >other criminal (e.g., domain hijacking) activities. > >Taken togther, I say that's a problem. What should be done about it is >yet another question, of course. > >Also, I'm not sure I agree with your characterization that businesses >etc which have registered a Tongan domain, but have no other >relationship with Tonga, are "legitimate". > >They may be banal, harmless, other than what may well be prima facie >evidence of intent to defraud by advertising a business etc in a >country they don't actually have any presence in, but that doesn't >necessarily make the usage "legitimate". > >I don't think I'd want to be on the wrong side of a court case, even >if unfair, with the other side pointing out that I was doing business >via a network address in the Kingdom of Tonga, unless I really had a >good reason for doing so other than "I thought the name was cute". The >law doesn't tend to look kindly on businesses which purposely >obfuscate their identity and whereabouts.
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