The internet is awash with news and comment about North Korea, from its nuclear tests to speculation about the health of its leader, Kim Jong-un. But its own contribution to the world wide web is tiny, according to a leak that revealed the country has just 28 registered domains. The revelation came after one of North Korea’s top-level nameservers was incorrectly configured to reveal a list of all the domain names under the domain .kp. The leak also revealed the homepage of the state-owned airline, Air Koryo, and sites specialising in North Korean movies and cuisine. It said on GitHub that “one of North Korea’s top-level name servers was accidentally configured to allow global [domain name system] transfers.

Source: The Guardian September 21, 2016 08:29 UTC