Hmm!

[ZeekUnreloaded]

Well the last thing I wanted to do was ask for some advice but for some reason I can't connect to websites with the extension .tk. Anyone know why this is?

[Contempt]

maybe your firewalls blocking them?

[static06]

Tons of people cant, I dont know why...

I can, just some people it hates I guess?

[silenced]

it's because you are a noob, remember?
Eh it's probably your proxy/firewall settings.

[Chriz]

http://www0.dot.tk/vc00401e.html

A strange story :S

PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

LARGEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD BLOCKS INTERNET ACCESS TO WEBSITES OF ONE OF THE SMALLEST COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD.

Amsterdam - June 24th 2002. The islands of Tokelau, with just 1500 inhabitants, consisting of three beautiful atolls in the South Pacific Ocean face a ban from the largest country in the world: the Peoples Republic of China.

China's Data Communication Bureau, residing at the Ministry of Information Industry, has blocked access to all websites bearing a .TK domain name. Many years ago, the International Standard Organization assigned Tokelau their .TK extension, just as .DE is assigned to Germany and .JP to Japan. Tokelau accepts registrations from all over the world. That's why the registry is larger than countries like Sweden or Russia.

Currently there are more then 220,000 websites containing a .TK domain name, which are not reachable by any Chinese individual or company.

'Since our start in December, many Chinese individuals claimed a .TK domain name. We know that there are only 25,000 .CN domain names registered within China, but the need for domain names in the Peoples Republic is enormous', claims Joost Zuurbier, President of Taloha, Inc., the registration entity for .TK domain names. 'We have seen about 60,000 registrations of .TK domain names from China which counted for 50% of all traffic to .TK websites in the first months of this year. At this moment the traffic to these Chinese websites and this content has dropped to virtually 0%. Only people from Singapore and Taiwan are able to watch this content at this time.'

The reason why the Data Communication Bureau blocked access to the .TK websites is unknown. Taloha tried to contact the Ministry of Information Industry several times in the last couple of weeks, but without success. The content displayed on the 60,000 Chinese websites, registered with a .TK domain name, varies from search engines to vacation-photo collections.

More information about Dot TK and the Islands of Tokelau can be found on http://www.dot.tk.

DOT TK: DIVIDING DOMAINS DIFFERENTLY
Cathy Josey
Tel: +1 954-791-0281
Fax: +1 954-584-7208