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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 08:14:47PM -0400, Barry Shein wrote: > > As fast as one of these .to domains is shut down the domain hijackers > open another .to domain, apparently within minutes, and continue > spamming with that. > > So it's not doing a lot of good asking tonic to shut down domain a.to > when that just results in seeing spam shortly thereafter advertising > b.to and then c.to and d.to and e.to and f.to etc. > > One major problem is the mismanagement of the .to domain, and to what > purpose (apparently not to serve the Kingdom of Tonga as a national > TLD) remains fairly mysterious, other than "for money" and whatever > damage it does to others be damned. It doesn't do any damage. A domain is just a domain ! Have you tried to complain to abuse at foo.to:s network operator ? Could you please clarify why it is worse to get a SPAM from foo.to than from foo.com ? Internic will let anyone register a .com domain. > It's like a site which won't close an open mail relay. Sure, it's > ultimately the spammers exploiting the open relay which are the actual > perps. But if all the open mail relay will do, for example, is block > the one domain from relaying so the spammers just jump to another > domain and use them as an open relay again, and again, and > again...well then just informing them of the latest domain on an > hourly basis isn't really doing it. You can't compare a TLD with a mail relay ... Still, a domain is just a domain. You don't even NEED a domain to send out SPAMS. The only thing you need is a connection to the Internet. Go complain to the network operator ! Could you please clarify why .to should take more action against spammers than Internic ? <RANT> Duh, here is a dark alley, oh, there is a drug-dealer in the dark alley. Hummm, lets forbid dark alleys .... </RANT> Go to the god damn source of the problem. The Network Operator ! Do you run to Internic as soon as you get a SPAM from a .com domain ? Most probably not. And most importantly, do you come whining on NANOG as soon as you get a SPAM from a .com domain ? Can't you see that this is just plain silly ? --Magnus
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