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'''Cameroon Telecommunications, or CAMTEL''', was the registry operator and sponsor organization that managed and administered the [[.cm]] [[ccTLD]] for Cameroon until 2010.<ref name="dotafrica">[http://dotafrica.blogspot.com/p/african-cctlds.html African ccTLDs], DotAfrica. Retrieved 2015 September 9.</ref>
  
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'''Cameroon Telecommunications, or CAMTEL''', is the registry operator and sponsor organization that manages and administers the [[.cm]] [[ccTLD]] for Cameroon.<ref name="dotafrica">[http://dotafrica.blogspot.com/p/african-cctlds.html African ccTLDs], DotAfrica. Retrieved 2015 September 9.</ref>
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== Reform and Redelegation Efforts ==
  
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In 2006, the .cm Registry set up a wild card DNS record for all unregistered .cm domains, in partnership with Canadian domain investor Kevin Ham. This arrangement redirected traffic on all unregistered domains to a parking page with PPC ads, agoga.com. Subsequent .CM auctions generated millions of dollars in revenues. McAfee designated .cm as the riskiest namespace with 36.7% of .cm websites posing a security risk to web users.<ref name="dotafrica"></ref>
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In December 2010, the government of Cameroon passed Law No. 2010/13, which among other things placed management of the .cm ccTLD in the hands of the Agence Nationale des Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication (ANTIC) (English: National Agency for Information and Communication Technologies).<ref name="cmredel">[https://nic.cm/en/2018/09/18/redelegation-du-cm/ Nic.cm - Support for .cm redelegation]</ref>.
  
 
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Latest revision as of 20:49, 2 September 2024

Camtel.jpg
Country: Cameroon
Website: camnet.cm

Cameroon Telecommunications, or CAMTEL, was the registry operator and sponsor organization that managed and administered the .cm ccTLD for Cameroon until 2010.[1]

Reform and Redelegation Efforts[edit | edit source]

In December 2010, the government of Cameroon passed Law No. 2010/13, which among other things placed management of the .cm ccTLD in the hands of the Agence Nationale des Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication (ANTIC) (English: National Agency for Information and Communication Technologies).[2].

References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ African ccTLDs, DotAfrica. Retrieved 2015 September 9.
  2. ↑ Nic.cm - Support for .cm redelegation
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