Managed by Tonic.to (Tonga Network Information Center), .TO domains belong to Tonga, a small country located in Oceania. They were created in 1995.
Initially, the .to domain was marketed in 1997 by a San Francisco company called Tonic Corp. who sold these domains under the approval of the prince of Tonga, .to domain registration applications were handled by the Tongan consulate in San Francisco.
The .to domains are very popular because "to" is a preposition widely used in English, which has led to the appearance of a large number of websites used as URL shorteners, i.e., websites that served only to redirect to another website, but using a much shorter address, for example: go.to























