Re: OT: where are you from
Hi, what does .to stand for, as in [EMAIL PROTECTED]? http://www.iana.org/cctld/cctld-whois.htm claudio -- Claudio Nieder, Kanalweg 1, CH-8610 Uster, Tel +41 79 357 6743 yahoo messenger: claudionieder aim: claudionieder icq:42315212 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.claudio.ch
RE: OT: where are you from
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). --joshua. DISCLAIMER: The use of hyperbole in this email should not be construed as any form of disrespect being shown or felt toward the people or government of Tonga. ;)
RE: OT: where are you from
D.J. Bernstein is big into Cryptography - using key encryption for private/secure email, etc. His domain choice cr.yp.to is crypto without the dots - AFAIK, he is actually in the USA. Based on his web site http://cr.yp.to, I would assume in the Chicago area. Bill On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 09:33:46AM +0300, Martín Marqués wrote: Off Topic, but not so much. what does .to stand for, as in [EMAIL PROTECTED]? The island of Tonga. djb uses cr.yp.to only because it looks good and is easy to remember, however. He's not (AFAIK :) related to anybody in Tonga. Greetz, Peter.
Re: OT: where are you from
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.
Re: OT: where are you from
djb uses cr.yp.to only because it looks good and is easy to remember, however. He's not (AFAIK :) related to anybody in Tonga. .to domains are not controlled by NSI, which some of us perceive as being a big benefit. I also like their no spamming policy. The only thing I don't like, is that I can't set the ttl's down for their glue records. I have had to make some IP address changes where I lost the old IP address at the same time I got the new one and requests to the old IP address were potentially going to happen for a day after the switch. I sent them a comment about having them change their change form to allow a particular time for an update to occur and to use tinydns's time to die feature to make the transition smooth, but I never heard back from them. This is something that home DSL users are likely to want and they may not have a lot of them.
Re: OT: where are you from
there's the network where the nameserver is hosted. chicago, blues brothers county ;-) so long /k --- rohrbach@WM:datasink[~]81% jwhois yp.to [whois.tonic.to] Tonic whoisd V1.0 yp a.ns.yp.to 131.193.178.181 b.ns.yp.to 131.193.178.181 rohrbach@WM:datasink[~]82% jwhois 131.193.178.181 [whois.arin.net] University of Illinois at Chicago (NET-UIC-ISN-NET) Computer Center 1940 West Taylor Avenue Chicago, IL 60680 US Netname: UIC-ISN-NET Netblock: 131.193.0.0 - 131.193.255.255 Coordinator: Zawacki, Edward (EZ3-ARIN) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (312) 996-0658 Domain System inverse mapping provided by: UIC-DNS1.UIC.EDU 128.248.2.50 UIC-DNS2.UIC.EDU 128.248.7.50 UIC-DNS3.UIC.EDU 128.248.171.50 Record last updated on 28-Aug-1995. Database last updated on 15-May-2001 22:44:34 EDT. The ARIN Registration Services Host contains ONLY Internet Network Information: Networks, ASN's, and related POC's. Please use the whois server at rs.internic.net for DOMAIN related Information and whois.nic.mil for NIPRNET Information. rohrbach@WM:datasink[~]83% dnsqr ptr 181.178.193.131.in-addr.arpa 12 181.178.193.131.in-addr.arpa: 102 bytes, 1+2+0+0 records, response, noerror query: 12 181.178.193.131.in-addr.arpa answer: 181.178.193.131.in-addr.arpa 536 PTR muncher.math.uic.edu answer: 181.178.193.131.in-addr.arpa 536 PTR koobera.math.uic.edu --- Bill Andersen([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.05.16 08:52:19 +: D.J. Bernstein is big into Cryptography - using key encryption for private/secure email, etc. His domain choice cr.yp.to is crypto without the dots - AFAIK, he is actually in the USA. Based on his web site http://cr.yp.to, I would assume in the Chicago area. Bill On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 09:33:46AM +0300, Martín Marqués wrote: Off Topic, but not so much. what does .to stand for, as in [EMAIL PROTECTED]? The island of Tonga. djb uses cr.yp.to only because it looks good and is easy to remember, however. He's not (AFAIK :) related to anybody in Tonga. Greetz, Peter. -- Experience is a teacher that gives the examination first and the lesson afterwards. KR433/KR11-RIPE -- http://www.webmonster.de -- ftp://ftp.webmonster.de [Key] [KeyID---] [Created-] [Fingerprint-] GnuPG 0x2964BF46 2001-03-15 42F9 9FFF 50D4 2F38 DBEE DF22 3340 4F4E 2964 BF46
OT: where are you from
Off Topic, but not so much. what does .to stand for, as in [EMAIL PROTECTED]? Saludos... :-) -- Cualquier administra un NT. Ese es el problema, que cualquier adminstre. - Martin Marques |[EMAIL PROTECTED] Programador, Administrador | Centro de Telematica Universidad Nacional del Litoral -
Re: OT: where are you from
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 09:33:46AM +0300, Martín Marqués wrote: Off Topic, but not so much. what does .to stand for, as in [EMAIL PROTECTED]? The island of Tonga. djb uses cr.yp.to only because it looks good and is easy to remember, however. He's not (AFAIK :) related to anybody in Tonga. Greetz, Peter.
Re: OT: where are you from
On Mié 16 May 2001 16:41, 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). --joshua. DISCLAIMER: The use of hyperbole in this email should not be construed as any form of disrespect being shown or felt toward the people or government of Tonga. ;) I think you got confussed with the domain .tv with got saled for many, many millons. That was the island of tuvalu. :-) -- Cualquier administra un NT. Ese es el problema, que cualquier administre. - Martin Marques |[EMAIL PROTECTED] Programador, Administrador | Centro de Telematica Universidad Nacional del Litoral -
