Yet one more factor
How a tiny Pacific Island grew to become the worldwide capital of cybercrime
Tokelau, a string of three remoted atolls strung out throughout the Pacific, is so distant that it was the final place on Earth to be linked to the phone—solely in 1997. Simply three years later, the islands obtained a fax with an unlikely enterprise proposal that will change every thing.
It was from an early web entrepreneur from Amsterdam, named Joost Zuurbier. He wished to handle Tokelau’s country-code top-level area, or ccTLD—the brief string of characters that’s tacked onto the top of a URL—in trade for cash.
Within the succeeding years, tiny Tokelau grew to become an unlikely web large—however not in the way in which it could have hoped. Till not too long ago, its .tk area had extra customers than some other nation’s: a staggering 25 million—however the overwhelming majority had been spammers, phishers, and cybercriminals.
Now the territory is desperately attempting to scrub up .tk. Its worldwide standing, and even its sovereignty, might rely on it. Learn the total story.
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—Jacob Judah
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