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.cm

Internet country code top-level domain for Cameroon

Field	Value
name	.cm
image	Netcom.cm logo.png
introduced	29 April 1995
type	Country code top-level domain
status	Active
registry	Agence Nationale des Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication
sponsor	Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of Cameroon
intendeduse	Entities connected with Cameroon
actualuse	Some use in Cameroon; sometimes used in typosquatting due to misspellings of .com domains
restrictions	None; Some labels reserved for government or educational agencies
structure	Registrations are made directly at the second level or at the third level beneath various second level domains
document	['.cm' policy ](https://www.antic.cm/index.php/en/cm-policy.html)
disputepolicy	[Dispute management policy](https://nic.cm/documents/politique%20de%20gestion%20des%20litiges.pdf)
website	[ANTIC](https://antic.cm/index.php/en/component/k2/item/309-management-of-cm-ip.html)
[nic.cm](https://nic.cm/)
caption	Logo used by Netcom, one of the official .cm domain registrars

nic.cm

.cm is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the Republic of Cameroon.

History

In August 2006, it was reported that the .cm registry had set up a wildcard DNS record, so that all unregistered domains in this top-level domain go to a parking page with paid search links. This was likely intended to take advantage of typographical errors by users attempting to reach .com web sites.

Auctions of .cm domains have been as high as $81,000 in 2009 for what pitchmen have termed "prime real estate". However, some bloggers have noted that nothing of any real value was actually put up for auction, despite the price war. Namejet.com, the official auction site for the .CM domain registrar Netcom.cm, sold over $500,000 in .cm domain names the first day and over $2 million in the first week.

Reputation

In a report published in December 2009 by McAfee, "Mapping the Mal Web - The world's riskiest domain", .cm was reportedly the riskiest domain in the world, with 36.7% of the sites posing a security risk to PCs. It is widely assumed that malicious domain programmers rely on inadvertent misspellings of well-trafficked websites ending in ".com" to lure unsuspecting users to their domains.

The .cm top-level domain is also used for domain name hacks by legitimate organizations, such as the CyanogenMod project, which used get.cm as an easily remembered URL shortener for distributing versions of its software, and The Hill, which uses hill.cm as a URL shortener when linking to its articles on social media.

References

"Department of Information and Communication Technologies Infrastructure and Access Networks". Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of Cameroon.
Berryhill, John. (August 5, 2006). "Nation of Cameroon Typo-Squats the Entire .com Space". Circleid.com.
(2009-09-02). "Hotels.cm sells for $81,100".
Ed Muller . "CM Traffic Domains not for sale".
(2009-09-02). "NameJet Hauls In $500K In 1st Day .CM Auctions & That's Only For The Domains On My List".
"McAfee uncovers riskiest domains". [[CNET]].
The Hill. (2020-04-13). "JUST IN: Macron extends France's coronavirus lockdown to May 11 http://hill.cm/6ThxCda".

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