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Why does Tonga steal the hostname “to”?

1 pointsby kierankabout 10 years ago
kk@kk:~# ping to PING to (216.74.32.107) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from mb.tdc.to (216.74.32.107): icmp_req=1 ttl=51 time=153 ms 64 bytes from mb.tdc.to (216.74.32.107): icmp_req=2 ttl=51 time=154 ms 64 bytes from mb.tdc.to (216.74.32.107): icmp_req=3 ttl=51 time=148 ms

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christopabout 10 years ago
Tonga controls the &quot;to&quot; top-level domain, so they may add NS records for anything under that TLD — there&#x27;s nothing stolen about it.<p>It&#x27;s not uncommon; the same happens with .ac, .ai, .cm, .dk, .gg, .io, .je, .pn, .sh...