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Cameroon Gone Wild
posted by michael on Monday August 07 2006, @07:46AM
jberryhill writes "The .cm (Cameroon) ccTLD operators have discovered that since their TLD 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.
The upshot is that, if the Neiman Marcus / Dotster lawsuit over 27 domain names was properly characterized as "massive", then the Cameroonians are now going well beyond massive, and are monetizing every conceivable typographic variation of "Neiman Marcus", as well as the correct spelling thereof at www.neimanmarcus.cm.
Colombia could learn a thing or two from these folks."
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