General Discussions

**imported_Edder** · 08-07-2006, 03:19 AM

The country of Cameroon, which owns the .cm cctld extension, has wildcarded every domain to a parked page :drool:

Quote:

"As reported on CircleID, the nation of Cameroon, which controls the .cm top level domain, has typo-squatted all of the .com domain space. They have placed a wildcard DNS record to redirect all traffic to an ad-based search page. Unlike the earlier case of Verisign putting a wildcard in the real .com domain, ICANN has very little direct control over what a nation can do with their own TLD. Will the owners of .co and .om follow?"

Source: Slashdot.

**Hobbit** · 08-07-2006, 03:57 AM

Wow, I don't think that's very cool. And I'm a victim of that typo at least once a day.

**imported_Luke** · 08-07-2006, 05:23 AM

interesting, some of the slashdot comments are worth a look at aswell if anyone is interested.

**imported_Tom** · 08-07-2006, 06:12 AM

peposterous!

**Ganceann** · 08-07-2006, 09:22 AM

I just decided to have a look at google.cm :P

Not quite the google you would expect.

Though the question should be is it the Cameroon government - or have the sold their rights to a marketing opportunist like the .ws and Western Samoa deal... (profitsharing kinda thing).