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d-null · 01-16-2008, 11:01 PM

Those dudes in cameroon sure have a good thing going with the .cm suffix

bet there is a ton of money to be made in those typos

strobi · 01-16-2008, 11:36 PM

Kevin Ham owns all the .cm typos, he sure is making some nice money

01-16-2008, 11:37 PM

how does one get his hands on .cm names?

LiveDose · 01-16-2008, 11:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by strobi

Kevin Ham owns all the .cm typos, he sure is making some nice money

That guy is a slick mofo. He is macking out with domains.

LiveDose · 01-16-2008, 11:38 PM

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Originally Posted by bdjuf

how does one get his hands on .cm names?

He made a deal with the government.

dij · 01-16-2008, 11:46 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.cm

tiger · 01-16-2008, 11:49 PM

Pretty sweet fucking deal he made.

A little vision, little luck and a hell of a lot of fucking money.

Congrats to him.

NosMo · 01-17-2008, 12:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by strobi

Kevin Ham owns all the .cm typos, he sure is making some nice money

Werd....I smart mofo

NosMo

brandonstills · 01-17-2008, 12:21 AM

There was an article on this in Business 2.0 a while back. Basically some guy made a deal with the gov't of Cameroon so that if the .cm domain doesn't exist it goes to a parked domain.

Try typing ANY domain name that ends with .cm. If it isn't taken, it's parked.

Vick! · 01-17-2008, 01:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LiveDose

That guy is a slick mofo. He is macking out with domains.

Now this is the real domainer ..

zigx · 01-17-2008, 01:04 AM

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/busin...0989/index.htm

01-17-2008, 01:07 AM

So how can we get some CM domains ourselves?

xato · 01-17-2008, 01:11 AM

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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. This has been tracked down to Kevin Ham.

holy shit

this is huge money.

Farang · 01-17-2008, 01:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by brandonstills

There was an article on this in Business 2.0 a while back. Basically some guy made a deal with the gov't of Cameroon so that if the .cm domain doesn't exist it goes to a parked domain.

Try typing ANY domain name that ends with .cm. If it isn't taken, it's parked.

nice one

eMonk · 01-17-2008, 01:32 AM

interesting... good read... and congrats to kevin ham & his .cm empire...

OzMan · 01-17-2008, 01:36 AM

He gets approx one million uniques per day just from typos

Gordon G · 01-17-2008, 04:55 AM

kevin ham is the man.

slapass · 01-17-2008, 06:45 AM

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Originally Posted by bdjuf

So how can we get some CM domains ourselves?

um isn't this the question we should all be asking?

polish_aristocrat · 01-17-2008, 06:48 AM

call me jealous, but I don't consider it a fair deal

1 dude basically took control over all .cm domains, without buying a single of them

polish_aristocrat · 01-17-2008, 06:49 AM

www.click-this-useless-url-too-see-it.cm

slapass · 01-17-2008, 06:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by OzMan

He gets approx one million uniques per day just from typos

do you know that or are you making it up?

slapass · 01-17-2008, 07:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by OzMan

He gets approx one million uniques per day just from typos

Ham won't reveal specifics but says Agoga receives "in the ballpark" of 8 million unique visitors per month. Fellow domainers, naturally, are envious.

RomaCash · 01-17-2008, 07:03 AM

http://www.google.com/search?client=...utf-8&oe=utf-8

-its @ 3rd place only.

who owns http://gofugyourself.typepad.com/ ????

tranza · 01-17-2008, 07:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by brandonstills

There was an article on this in Business 2.0 a while back. Basically some guy made a deal with the gov't of Cameroon so that if the .cm domain doesn't exist it goes to a parked domain.

Try typing ANY domain name that ends with .cm. If it isn't taken, it's parked.

That's a pretty sweet deal he got!!

pip · 01-17-2008, 07:26 AM

You can't buy .cm domains, he owns every single one

OzMan · 01-17-2008, 10:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by slapass

do you know that or are you making it up?

just made it up

_Richard_ · 01-17-2008, 10:50 AM

yea that guys office is down the street from me.. crazy story there too

sortie · 01-17-2008, 11:07 AM

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Originally Posted by polish_aristocrat

call me jealous, but I don't consider it a fair deal

1 dude basically took control over all .cm domains, without buying a single of them

Kind of like how the bank owns your land and car but didn't have to do any shopping.

kektex · 01-17-2008, 11:24 AM

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Originally Posted by pip

You can't buy .cm domains, he owns every single one

Yes you can. He doesn´t own them, what happens is that if the domain doesn´t exist it gets forwarded to Agoga.
They are fucking expensive though. Like $500 last time I checked.

Colombia should make their .co ccTLD. I would like to register youtube.co or something hehe

Spicoli · 01-17-2008, 11:27 AM

kaaaaaaaaaa ching!!!
smart mofo canuck, hey, I'm a canuck 2

RomaCash · 01-18-2008, 03:08 AM

You can't buy .cm domains, he owns every single one = just add domain in ur short list and soon or after it will expire. Then just pick up it

01-16-2008, 11:01 PM	#1
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brandonstills Confirmed User Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Chatsworth, CA Posts: 1,964	There was an article on this in Business 2.0 a while back. Basically some guy made a deal with the gov't of Cameroon so that if the .cm domain doesn't exist it goes to a parked domain. Try typing ANY domain name that ends with .cm. If it isn't taken, it's parked. __________________ Brandon Stills Industry and programming veteran [email protected] \| skype: brandonstills \| ICQ #495-171-318

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eMonk Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Canada Posts: 2,310	interesting... good read... and congrats to kevin ham & his .cm empire...

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