By registering your domain name you are helping
the people of Tokelau. We would like to inform
you of an important event that occurred in mid
January and its consequences over the last few
weeks.
As you may know, Tokelau depends solely on
satellite communication to provide phone and
internet services to the people of the islands.
Internet services are sponsored by the Tokelau
Foundation since September 2003. The Tokelau
Foundation is funded by Fortune 500 companies
from all over the world, claiming their
TRADEMARK.TK domain names.
The satellite used for all communication, the
Intelsat 804, disappeared from the sky mid January
because of a technical problem. The satellite 804
could technically not be controlled any longer
by Intelsat, the satellite telecommunication provider.
Intelsat therefore incurred a loss of more then 70
million US Dollar.
The people of Tokelau are completely dependant
on this satellite infrastructure. Since the
connection with the Intelsat 804 satellite has
been broken, they did not have any way to
communicate by phone, fax or Internet. When the
satellite was lost, the people of Tokelau did not
know what was going on. No one was able to present
them with the story! Each and every way of
communication was cut off.
As a result the New Zealand radio, which also
broadcasts on long-distance short-wave
radio, started transmitting an hourly request
to the islands of Tokelau, located thousands
of miles from Auckland, instructing them to
power the special emergency satellite phone,
which has its own antenna link to another type
of satellite.
After three days of broadcasting the people of
Tokelau picked up this signal and turned
on the emergency satellite phone. With the
help of the Network Operations Center of Intelsat,
the regular satellite phone connection could
be restored by pointing the large antenna dish
towards another satellite of Intelsat.
At this moment, the technicians of Dot TK are
working closely with Intelsat to get the
Internet connection on all three islands working
again. This will hopefully be finalized in the
next couple of days.
Again: we appreciate the registration of your Dot TK
domain name with us. If you want to support
our organization and the people of Tokelau, don't
hestitate and buy your domain name today. You
can convert your FREEDOMAIN.TK domain name to
a paid one in My Dot TK, under Pay for Domain.
Login today at
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With kindest regards,
Dot TK Management
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