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North Korea Has Just 28 Websites (vice.com)
In September of 2014, NetCraft confirmed there to be over 1 billion websites on the world wide web. There are over 140 million .com and .net domains alone, as well as millions of websites for each country code top-level domain (ccTLD), such as .de for Germany and .cn for China. But in North Korea, the number of websites the country has registered for its top-level domain is in the double digits. Motherboard reports: On Tuesday, apparently by mistake, North Korea misconfigured its nameserver, essentially a list that holds information on all of the domains that exist for .kp, allowing anyone to query it and get the list. In other words, a snafu by North Korea's system administrators allowed anyone to ask the country's nameserver: "can I have all of your information on this domain?" and get an answer, giving everyone a peek into the strange world of North Korea's web. North Korea has only 28 registered domains, according to the leaked data. "We didn't think there was much in the way of internet resources in North Korea, and according to these leaked zone files, we were right," Doug Madory, a researcher at Dyn, a company that monitors internet use and access around the world, told Motherboard. Some of the sites aren't reachable, perhaps because after Bryant discovered them, they are being deluged with traffic.
System Administrator, North Korea. Prior SA left to spend more time with Ancestors.
That query is called a zone transfer.
I hear a position has opened up.
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It's too depressing to read most of the time. And we never meet the heroic cool characters... Yet.
People who are familiar with DNS workings already know its formal name. No one else cares, and a plain explanation is more informative.
"National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity." - Celine's First Law
But they are the best 28 web sites. Few ads, great approved information and very responsive.
Wait, so it is a big secret which publicly facing pages a country has registered? What is the point of making name servers black boxes and not having any way of know which names are registered other than to try them and see if they exist?
Troll is not a replacement for I disagree.
Does some one have the IP list?
How long it takes for any other country to launch these many websites. A nanosecond? Faster than the speed of light? xD
On second thought, North Korea is such a dystopian nightmare of human misery there is no humor to be had here.
In North Korea nameserver... nope, not that either.
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Such as:
gloriousleader.kp becomes gloriousleader.com
and the same for
bountifulharvest.kp
corruptwesternimperialistpigdogs.kp
victoryisnear.kp
weshallconquertheocean.kp
and so on.
I wouldn't like to be the owner of kp.com. Imagine the requests for sub-domains....
They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom
The only 28 pages on the internet you can visit without adblocker!
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
It is now official. Netcraft has confirmed: North Korea is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered North Korea community when IDC confirmed that North Korea nuke share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that North Korea has lost more nuke share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. North Korea is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Nuke Admin comprehensive nuking test.
You don't need to be the Amazing Kreskin to predict North Korea's future. The hand writing is on the wall: North Korea faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for North Korea because North Korea is dying. Things are looking very bad for North Korea. As many of us are already aware, North Korea continues to lose nuke share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Western North Korea is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its nuke developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time western North Korea developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: western North Korea is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Northern North Korea leader Kim states that there are 7000 citizens of northern North Korea. How many citizens of southern North Korea are there? Let's see. The number of northern North Korea versus southern North Korea warheads on Koreanet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 southern North Korea citizens. eastern North Korea warheads on Koreanet are about half of the volume of southern North Korea warheads. Therefore there are about 700 citizens of eastern North Korea. A recent article put western North Korea at about 80 percent of the North Korea nuke supply. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 western North Korea citizens. This is consistent with the number of western North Korea Koreanet warheads.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, western North Korea went out of business and was taken over by central North Korea who sell another troubled shithole. Now central North Korea is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that North Korea has steadily declined in nuke share. North Korea is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If North Korea is to survive at all it will be among shithole dilettante dabblers. North Korea continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, North Korea is dead.
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You dictators, corporate and state, think alike.
Table-ized A.I.
Hey Dan, ready for that public hanging of political prisoners? I'm just finishing up here with my new kayaking friends.
Kayaking friends on your computer?
Dan: Yeah, I just got North Korea online.
Sounds great. Listen, I can't go to the public executions today.
WHAT?
First my kids have to go to the library to read books on how great Our Leader is. Then I have to stand on a street corner and yell revolutionary slogans at complete strangers. And I have to contact my mother; she's making kayaks in a slave labor camp and gets executed tomorrow.
Hey, we can take care of all that before we go.
Yeah, right!
No, with North Korea online!
North Korea online can do all that?
How about sending your mother some nice flowers?
Pornhub, Redtube, xhamster, amazon, google, facebook... that's it right?
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
One is for weather, one for shopping, four movie sites, 10 are news/propaganda and the rest are porn.
The story of North Korea does indeed have some heroes to it!
Lee Soon-ok
Kang Chol-hwan
An Hyuk
And plenty other survivors and escapees. Imagine what it would take to plan an escape from North Korea, and actually carry it out. Soon-ok and Chol-hwan served time in labor camps where they saw executions and human experimentation, and still had the stones to manage an escape knowing what horrible fate failure would get them. If that doesn't merit the label of hero, I don't know what would.
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rediculous.
No it's not. Using the proper terms and then explaining them is the most informative explanation if the piece is meant for laymen.
... give them a prison sentence of 15 years hard labor.
North Korea imprisons about 600 out of every 100k population. That is a horrific number, and is far worse than the world average. In fact, there is only one other country that imprisons a greater proportion of citizens: The United States of America, at about 700 per 100k.
North Korea kidnaps actreseses from Japan (or used to), purely for the entertainment of "Great Leader"TM, or for forced sex/rape. Sometimes they were just "disappeared". We kidnap/extradite knuckle-dragging, sociopathic terrorists who would murder you without a second thought. Sometimes we make a mistake, but at least we are not kidnapping for the sake of entertaining an organized crime, eugenics-based monarchy ("Three generations of glorious hard labor in our glorious slave camps will cure you of all genetic badness, because magic!! Glory! Glory!" And only the glorious genetic line of the glorious Kim family is fit to gloriously rule, because magic!! Glory! Glory!). Bullshit. There is a difference.
"North Korea imprisons about 600 out of every 100k population" How would you even know this statistic? But lets pretend this statistic is true and that makes NK better than the US because that is exactly what your post is saying. The US has problems but why does the US still attract millions of legal and illegal immigrants each year? Why does every single country in NATO want to be under US military protection? Why are the US allies in Asia get nervous every time the US hints it wants to decrease it's military foot print? All of the countries and their citizens feel they can demean, insult, and belittle the US and it's citizens but then expect unlimited access to US industries, financial systems, colleges, and above all military protection? We are living in a truly fucked up world when people start absolving North Korean actions in their efforts to moan and bitch about the US? Every tyrant on the planet automatically gets a pass on their actions if it provides a way to slander the US? There is no way this ingrained anti-us psychosis can be ended short of a full blown world war where the US stands back and only fights to preserve it's territory and narrowed interests while letting everyone else fend for themselves. After a few billion people get killed and countries are razed to the ground maybe the survivors can start placing actions in context when comparing good and evil. And war is coming. Over population combined with a finite amount of resources guarantees it.
More worrying is that North Koreans have only access to these 28 sites.
Slashdot, fix the reply notifications... You won't get away with it...
Spout your propaganda as you will, you Communist stooge. I have been there. People aren't starving as much now as they were 15 years ago, but living as a NK civilian is very bad still and probably getting worse.
HBI's Law: Frequency of calling others Nazis is directly correlated with the likelihood of the accuser being Communist.
Wow, such selection. Are any of them porn sites?
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
North Korea imprisons about 600 out of every 100k population. That is a horrific number, and is far worse than the world average. In fact, there is only one other country that imprisons a greater proportion of citizens: The United States of America, at about 700 per 100k.
North Korea imprisons its entire population in a hell modeled on Stalin's excesses. Attempting to leave the country without permission can get you and three generations of your family thrown into a prison camp with extremely harsh conditions, or simply killed. There are hundreds of thousands of North Koreans in those camps. Not clapping enough at a mass ceremony to celebrate the regime's accomplishments, or the glories of the Dear Leader, can also get you in that same sort of prison camp. When the crime is judged to be political in nature you are unlikely to ever emerge alive from one of the special prison camps they will send you to. Starvation, beatings, medical experiments, possibly experimental tests of chemical weapons, and other tortures are what await you.
The people in US prisons didn't get there by telling fat jokes about Presidents Bush or Obama. You're looking at real crimes like murder, rape, drug dealing, embezzlement, and so on.
Did you consider any of that when you made your post? Or were you just trying to somehow suggest that the US was actually a worse place than North Korea?
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
For the same reason americans frequently complain about china, but still happily buy the products manufactured there...
For the same reason russia has recently been allowed to annex part of another country, while its business as usual with them.
Too big to ignore.
North korea is small enough that you can afford to ignore and boycott them.
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