Why does Tonga steal the hostname “to”?

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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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Tonga controls the "to" top-level domain, so they may add NS records for anything under that TLD — there's nothing stolen about it.

It's not uncommon; the same happens with .ac, .ai, .cm, .dk, .gg, .io, .je, .pn, .sh...

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