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Nation of Cameroon Typo-Squats the Entire .com Space

By Chris
Created 2006-08-07 10:57
Cameroon Flag [1]
 

Typo-squatting and so-called parked domains continue to generate problems. Back in 2003, the entire DNS [2] system was put at risk by Verisign's infamous Sitefinder [3]. Now, it's a whole country (Cameroon) which try to subvert the DNS system, via similarities between it's ccTLD [4] (.cm) and the .com domain.

"The .cm (Cameroon) ccTLD operators have discovered that since their TLD [5] is simply one omitted letter away from .com, that there is a gold mine in the typo traffic that comes their way. Accordingly, Cameroon has now wild-carded its ccTLD and is monetizing the traffic." 

Source: circleID [6] 

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Source URL:
http://blog.publicityweb.com/blog/node/317

Links:
[1] http://blog.publicityweb.com/blog/node/320
[2] http://blog.publicityweb.com/blog/glossary/8#term71
[3] http://www.verisign.com/information-services/naming-services/site-finder-services/index.html
[4] http://blog.publicityweb.com/blog/glossary/8#term109
[5] http://blog.publicityweb.com/blog/glossary/8#term108
[6] http://www.circleid.com/
[7] http://www.circleid.com/posts/nation_of_cameroon_typosquats_com_space/
[8] http://weblog.johnlevine.com/ICANN/cameroon.html?seemore=y
[9] http://blog.publicityweb.com/blog/node/295