.tk

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.tk is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Tokelau, a territory of New Zealand in the South Pacific. The .tk TLD is managed by Teletok, a local telecommunications company who outsourced the domain registry operation to the Dutch company Freenom, who was additionally also acting as a registrar. As Freenom offered free registration, the .tk ending was often associated with malicious activities like phishing, spam and cybersquatting. In 2023, Freenom stopped offering new .tk registrations in their registrar business as a result of a lawsuit with Meta. Their registry operations for other registrars were not affected by this. Freenom announced it would exit the domain registry and registrar business in February 2024. Teletok opened negotiations with the domain registry operator of .nz, for help in managing .tk after Freenom's exit.

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