Misconfigured DNS Server Reveals That North Korea Has Only 28 Websites

Two days ago, North Korea's top-level domain name server (DNS) was accidentally misconfigured to allow other DNS servers to query for its content, inadvertently disclosing that there are only 28 domains registered in the entire country.

While many were probably expecting to find a much smaller website pool inside North Korea when compared to other countries, nobody expected it to be quite so small. In fact, you could probably visit all North Korean websites on your lunch break.

Most of the sites are government related, and if you look at the DNS zone files, which were recorded by the TLDR (TLD Records) project and uploaded on GitHub, you'll see that most of the entries are quite hard to find.

DNS zone files still available online

Matt Bryant, the security engineer who discovered this DNS blunder says the server still remains open for queries at the time of writing.

Usually, this kind of data is only available to top-level domain registrars only. You can't just ask any country's top-level domain name servers for their zone files. Only approved parties are granted access to DNS zone files, usually domain registrars or country-level organizations.

Below is the list of all North Korean websites. You'll probably be able to brag to your friends of visiting the entire North Korean Internet in less than two minutes.