Tag archive: Tokelau

It may be a dubious distinction along the lines of being the most crime-addled city in the United States or having the longest rap sheet in your high school’s graduating class, but Hong Kong has earned the title of “Most Dangerous Domain” according to a new report by McAfee. In the company’s second annual Mapping the Mal Web report, .hk took top honors with an impressive 19.2 percent of its sites posing a security… Read More

What’s in a name? If you live in the tiny Pacific nation of Tokelau, quite a bit. Its popular .tk suffix has allowed the country to add 10% to its gross domestic product as well as gain computers and net access for residents. It all came about when Dutch entrepreneur Joost Zuurbier, the founder of Dot TK, decided to invest in a country level domain name in 2001. The hard part was convincing the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names… Read More