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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 03:02:29AM -0400, Barry Shein wrote: > The question was what we should do, not what they should do. For > example, should we remove their domain from the top level servers if > it has ceased to serve any legitimate purpose? <sigh> Legitimate to _whom_, Barry? It's a _TLD_. It only has to be "legitimate" to the Administrative Contact in the whois record, as far as I can see. > But we can cut off our half of the connection if we feel it is > primarily malicious and abusive. "our half of the connection". The link itself is almost certainly commercial, and the root DNS entries, I strongly suspect, are there in trust for the IANA, who are the administrative owners of "", to the extent that there are any, I think. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth [email protected] Member of the Technical Staff "The net is safer in bad weather: you The Suncoast Freenet can't run a backhoe Tampa Bay, Florida in a hurricane." (after Sean Donelan) +1 813 790 7592 Managing Editor, Top Of The Key sports e-zine ------------ http://www.totk.com
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