The .cm Boom
As well as many natural riches including oil, coffee and cocoa The republic of Cameroon has found a new, less traditional, export - a web suffix which happens to double as a mistype of the ultimate suffix .com.
Purchasing misspelt domain names has been a pass time for web entrepreneurs for years looking to drive high levels of traffic and advertising revenue and the chance to drive traffic from some of the worlds most popular URLS with the .cm suffix would be incredibly lucrative.
As such Kevin Ham the owner of a multi million web business struck a
deal with the Cameroon who agreed to direct any users who request .cm
sites which are not yet registered to his companies site - agoga.com to
capitalise on huge amounts of advertising revenue.
This hasn't gone down particularly well with a number of bloggers who claim is a sneaky, underhand tactic to grab an 'easy buck'.
David Ulevitch, the chief executive of OpenDNS, the company which corrects mistyped domain names on the fly says
"It’s a total disservice to internet users and to brand names which doesn't provide any benefit to anyone"
