August 7, 2006
Cameroon Domain Shenanigans
All your typos are belong to us!
CircleID highlights the issue of Cameroon exploiting mis-typed urls. I’ve just tried apple.cm, microsoft.cm and google.cm, and yes, all those pages look pretty similar!
I don’t agree with the author’s opinion that OpenDNS should redirect .cm typos to their search page (if you’ve not heard of them, OpenDNS is a nifty little service that speeds up domain name queries). This might prove problematical, as the .cm top level domain does contain a few useful sites (Google returns around 486,000 results with a site:.cm search!)
EDIT: Almost forgot about John Levine’s blog entry that lists the actual hosts of this Cameroon typo page!
