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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. Um, yeah. Wow. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    In other news, AOL just released full search records for 500,000 users.... to everybody, not just the DOJ.

  2. Re:Smart move. by madcow_bg · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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.
    I beg to differ. Pacifist does not mean - go and die, but do not fight. Pacifist means to try and prevent a war (like in Iraq), to protest against a war (like in Lebanon) and to find other means of doing the job. Being pacifist does not mean you're stupid. Still, you must refrain from war whenever possible. That is why it is not difficult to project the americans in a bad light - because they do stupid things. Whether they are bad is up to a personal vision.

    His job is to protect his citizens.
    I think that was Hitler's job too. The way he does is what matters. Live and let others live?

    Mod me offtopic, please.