Cameroon Telecommunications: Difference between revisions

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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]

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

[dotafrica-1] African ccTLDs, DotAfrica. Retrieved 2015 September 9.

[cmredel-2] Nic.cm - Support for .cm redelegation

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-'''Cameroon Telecommunications, or CAMTEL''', was 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>
+'''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>
-==Wildcarding Controversy and Typosquatting==
+== Reform and Redelegation Efforts ==
-In 2006, the .cm Registry set up a [[Wildcarding|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 pay-per-click ads, agoga.com. Subsequent .CM auctions generated millions of dollars in revenues.
-In 2009, McAfee designated .cm as the riskiest namespace with 36.7% of .cm websites posing a security risk to web users.<ref>[https://www.cnet.com/news/mcafee-uncovers-riskiest-domains/ CNET.com - McAfee Uncovers the Riskiest Domains]</ref>
+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>.
-==Reform and Redelegation Efforts==
-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 National Agency for Information and Communication Technologies (ANTIC).<ref name="cmredel">[https://nic.cm/en/2018/09/18/redelegation-du-cm/ Nic.cm - Support for .cm redelegation]</ref>. While it appears that ANTIC intended to initiate a redelegation request with IANA,<ref name="cmredel" /> IANA has no record of a request.<ref>[https://www.iana.org/reports IANA.org - Reports]</ref> CAMTEL is still listed on IANA's delegation record.<ref>[https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/cm.html IANA Delegation Record - .cm]</ref> However, none of the contact information is valid, and camnet.cm no longer resolves.<ref>[http://camnet.cm Camnet.cm], last attempted February 2021. See also [https://web.archive.org/web/20160321120446/http://www.camnet.cm Archive.org's last crawl of the site], in April 2016.</ref> The [[NIC.cm]] site run by ANTIC appears to be the operating registry.<ref>[http://nic.cm Nic.cm]</ref>
 ==References==
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