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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. There's typos, and then there's THAT by moochfish · · Score: -1, Redundant

    "As reported on CircleID, the nation of Cameroon, which controls the .cm top level domain, has typo-squatted all of the .com domain space."

    That ".com" should be ".cm." In an article about typo-squatting, could you at least make sure you don't typo the main premise of the article in a manner that significantly alters the story??

  2. Worst. Typo. Ever. by Ethan+Allison · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It's .cm guys, not .com!

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  3. Re:The fix is easy by Lars+T. · · Score: 0, Redundant

    You could also just not type ".cm" instead of ".com"

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  4. Re:No they haven't by 1u3hr · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Yeah, as usual, the Slashdot headline is bullshit. Cameroon has typosquatted all of ".cm", as is their right; not ".com". I find it hard to get excited about this.