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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?"

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  1. Smart move. by Duncan3 · · Score: 4, Funny

    That should double their GDP!

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    1. Re:Smart move. by MECC · · Score: 4, Funny

      pple who cant tyhp shoulndyt be ushing the inpternet anwywya

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  2. www.gkj.cm by tsa · · Score: 4, Funny

    I tried it, it works! I must say it's a real clever idea. I want a country too!

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  3. What's next? by macserv · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm sure the government of Vomania will benefit highly from my URL mistakes.

  4. If you think about it by Koragnar · · Score: 5, Funny

    .com is typo-squatting all the .cm sites for people who suck miserably at typing.

  5. Ah... time to crontab wget again by MrPerfekt · · Score: 5, Funny

    Once every 5 minutes I think I'll be hitting www.youcontributenothingtotheinternet.cm!

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  6. Re:for those that don't get it, .cm == typo of .co by morie · · Score: 4, Funny

    lk buddy, my keybard is quite ld s yu dn't expect all the keys t wrk prperly, nw d yu?

    I have truble with .cm very ften

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