2023-11-08
4. @Jacob_Judah investigates how a small Pacific Island of Tokelau inadvertently evolved into a global center for spammers, phishers, and cybercriminals exploiting freely available domains for their nefarious activities. 🇹🇰🧑 💻 @techreview https://www.technologyreview.com/ ...
MIT Technology Review
How .tk, the ccTLD for New Zealand's Tokelau territory, gained 25M users, more than any other ccTLD until recently, by becoming cybercriminals' domain of choice
Tokelau, a necklace of three isolated atolls strung out across the Pacific, is so remote that it was the last place on Earth to be connected to the telephone—only in 1997.