But as part of the whole picture, that Tonga's domain seems to be used as nothing but a "safe harbor" for porn sites engaged in criminal activity and even their own supposed govt consulate comes up as an ad for a software company etc, it would seem to indicate that this domain, .to, is not being used as a legitimate country TLD, is not being managed by the people it was assigned to for the purpose it was assigned, etc.
The simple question here is: who are you to tell a sovereign country what it can and what it cannot do? Re: ineffectiveness of international treaties. I beg to differ. The odds are that if one attempts to mess with computers not just located in outside US borders but operated by or on the behalf of the foreign government (no matter if we think that a clown and/or a scam artist operates it), one would quickly end up in the middle of a something that US Department of State would be handling. Remember, if those people are operating on the behalf of the government and are making money on it, they do have an ear of whoever awarded them the contract. Alex