On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 09:41:06AM -0400, Joshua Nichols wrote:
> > >
> > > what does .to stand for, as in [EMAIL PROTECTED]?
> >
> > The island of Tonga.
>
> This could be a redundant reminder to many, but a few years back, Tonga
> realized that the four-or-so computers on their entire island did not really
> warrant a great need for domains. Hence, their governtment decided to start
> selling the somewhat attractive .to domain. I vaguely remember a follow up
> story in which they were able to pay off millions of dollars of debt to
> other countries from the proceeds of such sales.
>
> So, while a foo.to domain /could/ actually be from Tonga, chances are it
> belongs to some clever americans (go.to, iwant.to, etc).
go.to belongs to some clever Dutch guys :)
And we're getting way offtopic here :)
Greetz, Peter.
