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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 related to the phone—solely in 1997. Simply three years later, the islands acquired a fax with an unlikely enterprise proposal that might change all the pieces.

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 tip of a URL—in change for cash.

Within the succeeding years, tiny Tokelau grew to become an unlikely web large—however not in the way in which it might have hoped. Till just 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 making an attempt to scrub up .tk. Its worldwide standing, and even its sovereignty, could rely upon it. Learn the total story.
 
—Jacob Judah

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