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How a tiny Pacific Island turned 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 acquired a fax with an unlikely enterprise proposal that will change all the things.
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 tip of a URL—in change for cash.
Within the succeeding years, tiny Tokelau turned an unlikely web big—however not in the way in which it might have hoped. Till lately, its .tk area had extra customers than another nation’s: a staggering 25 million—however the overwhelming majority have 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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