mini sitefinder

**gpmgroup** · 08-04-2006 10:21 PM

www.domainstate.cm
www.google.cm
www.microsoft.cm

**safesys** · 08-04-2006 10:25 PM

I wonder what kind of price they paid for that deal - the traffic is going to be truly monumental, but then again the legal liabilities aren't inconsiderable either.

23234 google.cm
3476 ebay.cm
1203 amazon.cm
872 cnn.cm
1623 youtube.cm

**DNBlogger** · 08-04-2006 11:01 PM

Is .cm an extension?

**safesys** · 08-04-2006 11:15 PM

yes, cameroon

**DNBlogger** · 08-04-2006 11:20 PM

Thanks Safesys. Any idea which registrar sell it the cheapest and Do you have be in Cameron to buy .cm domains?

**safesys** · 08-05-2006 01:23 AM

Any idea which registrar sell it the cheapest and Do you have be in Cameron to buy .cm domains?

it looks to me like the entire cameroon tld is sewn up to be a tld typo operation.

**gpmgroup** · 08-05-2006 02:16 AM

There are quite a few sites

e.g. http://www.airfrance.cm/

**think** · 08-05-2006 02:18 AM

Originally posted by safesys
it looks to me like the entire cameroon tld is sewn up to be a tld typo operation.

Ya, anything you type in takes you to a landing page......

even nonsensical ones like ghtlex.cm

http://www.ghtlex.cm

**GeorgeK** · 08-05-2006 02:43 AM

.om and .co will likely be next.

**safesys** · 08-05-2006 02:52 AM

.om and .co will likely be next.

it could be very lucrative for those countries to just pump the typo traffic as a "natural resource" - but its the underlying ad providing se's that would find themselves in hot water legally imo.

as an aside, I remember when you could register .uk.co domains (the real uk tld is .co.uk) so its not new territory for that tld

**GeorgeK** · 08-05-2006 03:01 AM

Google.cm has a higher Alexa ranking than men.com,

:

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/tr...&url=google.cm
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/tr...&url=google.cm

**DNBlogger** · 08-05-2006 04:38 AM

It appears its NOT possible for Americans or others to register domains in those countries i.e. .cm, .om, and .co extensions.

**GeorgeK** · 08-05-2006 04:51 AM

Yahoo appears to have registered Yahoo.cm (maybe with trademarks, one can do it).....new mini-landrush to register Cameroon trademarks.

I couldn't find a public WHOIS server for .cm, but if one goes to www.speednames.com and compares the results for "Yahoo" (searching for "Africa") vs. lalalalalalala, you'll see the lines are different in the .cm cases.