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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?"

2 of 402 comments (clear)

  1. 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.

  2. 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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