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Cameroon Typo-Squats all of .com

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the can't-fault-them-for-the-idea dept.

wayne writes "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?"

7 of 402 comments (clear)

  1. Oh, for God's sake get a life! by hairyface · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Anybody who can get hot under the collar over this non-issue has a serious problem.

  2. Re:Stupid fucking Africans by SIInudeity · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Hey asshole... I'm from South Africa.

  3. Re:Smart move. by glesga_kiss · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    From what I understand, the government there controls (well, attempts to) the broadcast channels pretty damn strictly, and voicing an opposition political opinion is generally called "libel" and involves jail time.

    Then we'd be right at home then. It's not hard to change "libel" to "trator". From reading a little about Cameroon, their government is as accountable as our own. Of course, we should just assume they are evil incarnate as they aren't white anglo-saxon Christians.

  4. I'd rather live elsewhere... by Khyber · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'd rather live in a god-forsaken place than the US/UK where every other word out of a politician's mouth is "God." George Carlin's hidden third commandment - Thou shalt keep thy religion to thyself!

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  5. Re:NIGGERS CANNOT EVEN COOPERATE ON INTERNET! by SIInudeity · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'd rather live with a bunch of "niggers" than a bunch of stupid fucking americans.

  6. Re:BIND has a quick fix for this by Tweekster · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    How about a change to make it so that any .cm is forwarded to the .com version instead?

    Now that would be handy. cause no one at my office is going to anything related to cameroon, EVER.

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  7. Re:Smart move. by LynnwoodRooster · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I personally take offense at your list of derogatory terms as you left off those of us of mixed mick and kraut heritage... You're probably a frog or a wop, aren't you?

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    Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!