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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.
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We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
A good dystopian novel lacks heroic characters. Or at least they all get broken by big brother. Re-read 1984 as a reference. Fahrenheit 451 kinda sorta but I've always been a critic of the ending which seemed like a "how the fuck to finish this story" cop out.
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Because it's North Korea! And everything happening in there is supersecret and hence interesting. It's a bit like the inner workings of, say, the Freemasons. It's secret, it's alien, and hence it's interesting. If you could really see what it's like, you'd probably turn away, bored and uninterested. But because you can't just normally see it, it's interesting.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Pornhub, Redtube, xhamster, amazon, google, facebook... that's it right?
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One is for weather, one for shopping, four movie sites, 10 are news/propaganda and the rest are porn.
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.
The domain list is on the GitHub site mentions by one of the others here. The domains, with and without www. prefix, resolve to just 13 addresses:
175.45.176.67, .68, .69, .71, .73, .74, .76, .77, .78, .79, .81, .93, and .91.
The whole of North Korea is on 1,280 IP addresses: 175.45.176.0/22, and 210.52.109.0/24.
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