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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 might change every part.
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 quick string of characters that’s tacked onto the top of a URL—in alternate 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 every other nation’s: a staggering 25 million—however the overwhelming majority had been spammers, phishers, and cybercriminals.
Now the territory is desperately attempting to wash up .tk. Its worldwide standing, and even its sovereignty, might rely on it. Learn the complete story.
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—Jacob Judah
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