bounce.to....a web redirection service

[Isabel Danforth]

Ah.. go to :
	 http://www.tonic.to/faq.htm?3ED40F1G;;

and then scroll down and read 

What is Tonic? 

Tonic is the Tonga Network Information Center. Since 1995, in conjunction
with the Government of Tonga, we have been the national DNS registration
authority for the country of Tonga and have provided name service to a wide
variety of government, commercial, and personal Internet sites. We are
committed to providing superior service to the global Internet community
through a streamlined automated name registration and maintenance system
available 24 hours a day at http://www.tonic.to



At 03:54 PM 9/4/97 -0700, Chuck Bearden wrote:
>
>There is a start of authority record for the .to domain.  It lies with 
>the machine tonic.to [206.184.59.10], which is not an alias for another 
>canonical name.  I was able to find the start of authority from a couple 
>of root servers.  
>
>A traceroute to tonic.to passes through:
>
>imatek.sfconsulate.gov.to
>
>Is .to a toplevel domain for another country?  Perhaps they are 
>capitalizing on a side benefit of their name!
>
>Chuck
>
>On Thu, 4 Sep 1997, Thomas Dowling wrote:
>
>>  Did a top-level "TO" domain come into existence while I was taking my nap?
>> Or does this rely on DNS hackery a la Alternic?
>> 
>> Thomas Dowling
>> OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
>> tdowling at ohiolink.edu
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Peter Scott <scottp at moondog.usask.ca>
>> To: Multiple recipients of list <web4lib at library.berkeley.edu>
>> Date: Thursday, September 04, 1997 4:49 PM
>> Subject: bounce.to....a web redirection service
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> >>From the press release:
>> >
>> >"It's official - the first service of its kind has opened on the Internet,
>> >and is already creating massive interest.  Founder of the new 'web
>> >redirection' service bounce.to (http://bounce.to/), Miles Burke, explains;
>> >'Up until now, anyone who wanted a short, life-long web address for their
>> >site had to pay for the privilege - and pay well!  With over 500,000 .com
>> >and .net domain names in use, the best ones have all been taken...'"
>> >
>> >To see if it works (and it does) I have set up my home page to be
>> >redirected from:
>> >
>> >http://www.bounce.to/peterscott/
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> 
>> 
>
>
>
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