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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 related 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 needed 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 alternate for cash.
Within the succeeding years, tiny Tokelau turned an unlikely web big—however not in the best way it might have hoped. Till not too long ago, its .tk area had extra customers than another nation’s: a staggering 25 million—however the overwhelming majority had been spammers, phishers, and cybercriminals.
Now the territory is desperately making an attempt to wash up .tk. Its worldwide standing, and even its sovereignty, might depend upon it. Learn the total story.
—Jacob Judah
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