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Cameroon Typo-Squats all of .com
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?"
Uh, do you understand the point of the article?
Go to this site: http://www.cnn.com/
Now go here: http://www.cnn.cm/
That's typosquatting.
Give a man fire, and you warm him for the night. Set a man on fire, and you warm him for the rest of his life.
No, they typo-squatted ".com", in the same way that "goggle.com" and the like typo-squatted "google.com". Domain-squatting is something else entirely, and involves registering the actual target address and sitting on it, then trying to sell it for an increased sum.
.com by domain-squatting .cm.
They typo-squatted
I have no idea how many people mistype .com though, that's a pretty bad/lazy typo
It's too bad that none of that is likely to trickle down.
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. Hoarding the TLD isn't a surprising move for them.
Just edit your hosts file, and redirect *.cm to 127.0.0.1 in it. That way, even if you ever make that kind of typo on accident, you don't reward them for it.
And if enough people do it, it renders the ENTIRE TLD worthless, thereby economically punishing them, to boot.
Root wildcarding considered harmful.
So that's exactly what typosquatting is. What do you think it is?
"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it." -- GBS
I seriously don't think I've actually typed out "www." or ".com" in at least 4 years. Just type website then Ctrl+Enter and Firefox and IE add it for you. I don't think Safari, Nautilus, or Konqueror do it by default but I might be wrong. But if you're using Firefox, it's so much easier. There's also Shift+Enter for ".net" and Ctrl+Shift+Enter for ".org".
Last time I checked, Verisign wasn't a country or even a government service. It's a private company. That's where the difference lies.
Sendmail is like emacs: A nice operating system, but missing an editor and a MTA.
Looking at this is appears that a company called "NameView Inc" is supplying the ads from the IP block 72.51.27.0 - 72.51.27.255 http://www.nameview.com/
Prehaps calling them on +1 (309) 424-5497 might help to say what a bad idea this is or we can just block the IP range (which is now what I'm going to do)
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;; QUESTION SECTION:
;google.cm. IN A
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 6369
;; ANSWER SECTION:
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;google.cm. IN A
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 12264
google.cm. 518 IN A 72.51.27.58
zone "cm" IN { type delegation-only; };
ICANN has very little direct control over what a nation can do with their own TLD.
ICANN controls a root DNS server, which is authoritative for the "." zone - one level higher than a ccTLD. This means they get to say what DNS servers are authoritative for .cm, and could
send traffic to different servers if they really wanted to. Or at least
they could redirect queries that came to their particular root server. If the
other root servers followed suit they could do whatever they want
with any
ccTLD.
So, this option will preemptively avoid all jerkwads like Verisign and Cameroon. The only question is, why this isn't enabled by default.
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
Just install the following extension:-
.com typos for you.
http://www.efinke.com/url-fixer/
Corrects common
I have no sig yet I must scream.
They did NOT typo-squat "all of .com". .cm".
They typo-squatted "all of
Quite a difference, if you ask me.
Unless you are a sensationalist, of course.
I liked my next sig a lot better
Funny thing is, there's a big flaw in their click script: http://www.slashdot.cm/click.php?b=zQmE%2BQ3Pc00%3 D&term=slashdot&position=1&to=aHR0cDovL3NsYXNoZG90 Lm9yZy8
Ability to redirect to any site you want? GNAA will have fun with this.
And to help the people that don't want to copy and paste.
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Its not what it is, its something else.
And if you typo it as friend@hmail.com it'll go somewhere else as well...
or if you typo it as freind@gmail.com it'll go to someone else too...
Maybe you could try not typoing the address in the first place. Strangely enough when you make a "typo" on the envelope of a letter your letter might end up at the wrong house.
Jesus never suggested that nations should (or could) act in the way that individual believers act. We have many examples of this:
"Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's; and unto God what is God's."
"There is no nation upon this earth which God himself has not established."
It is also written in Ecclesiates that "to every thing there is a season", and one of these is "a time to kill, a time to heal"-- indicating that it is right to strike in the name of defense or justice but that amends must be made in the end. Jesus confirmed this in Luke 22:36-38 by advising his followers to sell their cloaks and buy a sword. Whether you believe a war is justified or not is up to you, but to make a blanket statement that a Christian president has to be a pacifist is baseless. His job is to protect his citizens.
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that a Christian president has to be a pacifist is baseless.
Pacifist? Who said anything about pacifist? What about the lies, the hypocrisy, the corruption, and of course, the fighting tooth and nail for the right to torture... so sorry, humiliate suspected terrorists by forcing them to fuck each other in the ass while the cameras roll? Can any Christian say with a straight face that this man represents themselves?
Very cute. Actually, Cameroon is an oil exporter, with an effective GDP of $40 billion. Of course, very little of this wealth has trickled down to the masses, but the country as a whole is hardly poor.