-o Dot.tk é tão legal que eu até pagaria se tivesse como; melhor que muito servidor caro por aí (como o Terra, que deletou todo o conteúdo do Escritório Noturno). se você não conseguu acessar os links de extensão '.tk' por esses dias é porque sofreram um ataque de Negação de Serviço, parecido com o que o Yahoo sofreu há um tempo. e essa foi a explicação enviada aos assinantes:

Malo ni Hector,

You may have noticed that your Dot TK Website was recently down. This downtime has been the result of a massive Internet (DDOS) attack on the Dot TK root servers. Although we have made the required changes in our network to get everything back up again, we wanted to briefly explain what happened.

As you may know, when someone wants to visit a .TK website, his computer first contacts one of the three Root Servers of Dot TK. One of the Root Servers is located in San Francisco, and the other two are in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. There are more than 400,000 domains registered with Dot TK. Websites bearing the .TK extension and those sites are visited more than 40 times per second by people all around the world. DDOS attacks are attacks on computer networks whereby packets of information
are sent through the Internet to one or more destinations, in this case: the Root Servers of Dot TK.

This attack resulted in the immediate non-availability of all 400,000 Dot TK websites, which use the .TK extension including the Dot TK registry website www.dot.tk.

This was such a large attack that The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the United States is thoroughly investigating the attack, IP address by IP address, since one of the Root Servers is on US soil. Also the Criminal Investigation Service of the Dutch
law enforcement is working on the case.

You can review the Press Release on the attack by going to: http://www.dot.tk/vc00401.html

The good news is that together with ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which deals with policies of Root Servers on the Internet, Dot TK has found a solution. The Root Servers of Dot TK are back online since April 2nd 2003. Due to the "propogation" of domains, it took some more time to get back "up" again. At this moment, everything is working again and all
domains should be available.

We apologize for any inconvenience this downtime may have caused you and assure you that we have done everything possible to get all Dot TK sites up and our network protected.

If you have questions or remarks about this attack, please email ddos@dot.tk.

Regards,

Dot TK System Management