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 the whole lot.
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 brief string of characters that’s tacked onto the top of a URL—in change for cash.
Within the succeeding years, tiny Tokelau turned an unlikely web big—however not in the best way it could have hoped. Till just lately, its .tk area had extra customers than every other 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 wash up .tk. Its worldwide standing, and even its sovereignty, might depend upon it. Learn the complete story.
—Jacob Judah
The rising indicators of bother for international carbon markets
There are rising indicators of bother for the multibillion-dollar international carbon market, as investigative tales and research proceed to erode the credibility of the enterprise world’s go-to device for cleansing up local weather emissions.
The promise of offsets is that corporations or people can stability out their greenhouse-gas air pollution by paying different events to forestall emissions or take away carbon dioxide from the air. However the proof is mounting that, fairly than producing much-needed local weather progress, these schemes are largely an enormous waste of cash. Learn the complete story.
