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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> | |||
==Wildcarding Controversy and Typosquatting== | |||
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 pay-per-click ads, agoga.com. Subsequent .CM auctions generated millions of dollars in revenues. | |||
In | 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> | ||
==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> | |||
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Cameroon Telecommunications, or CAMTEL, was the registry operator and sponsor organization that manages and administers the .cm ccTLD for Cameroon.[1]
Wildcarding Controversy and Typosquatting[edit | edit source]
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 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.[2]
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 National Agency for Information and Communication Technologies (ANTIC).[3]. While it appears that ANTIC intended to initiate a redelegation request with IANA,[3] IANA has no record of a request.[4] CAMTEL is still listed on IANA's delegation record.[5] However, none of the contact information is valid, and camnet.cm no longer resolves.[6] The NIC.cm site run by ANTIC appears to be the operating registry.[7]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ African ccTLDs, DotAfrica. Retrieved 2015 September 9.
- ↑ CNET.com - McAfee Uncovers the Riskiest Domains
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Nic.cm - Support for .cm redelegation
- ↑ IANA.org - Reports
- ↑ IANA Delegation Record - .cm
- ↑ Camnet.cm, last attempted February 2021. See also Archive.org's last crawl of the site, in April 2016.
- ↑ Nic.cm