site finder on steroids and other domain news
OK so I’m following Kevin Murphy’s lead again, but I’m intrigued by the nation of Cameroon’s inevitable rise to type-in traffic stardom. I’m referring to their change in policy to allow any requests for any unspecified .cm domains to resolve to a PPC page that they can make money from. I remember the outcry when Verisign tried it, but as pointed out Cameroon does not fall under any jurisdiction that has any power to make them stop. Even OpenDNS can not help here, since HTTP requests to .cm domains may in fact be legitimate. Well OK, I may never have gone to a .cm site before today, but the point remains valid.
In other news, Moniker.com was apparently bought by Kanoodle. When you look at some of the ethically-challenged registrars operating today I think they picked a winner! Elsewhere it was noted that iREIT purchased some additional portfolios consisting of some 40,000 domains including CreditReports.com and FarmLoans.com. Nice.
August 8th, 2006 at 6:44 pm
What makes you think we can’t help? :-)
They used to say “Stay by your radio for futher updates.”
My advice, Stay by your newsreader tuned to our RSS feed for further updates tonight or tomorrow.
-david
August 8th, 2006 at 6:50 pm
Oh, by the way, since that came out a little more serious than I intended. We’re gonna show some cool stuff tonight or in the morning. Depending on when I start drinking and when I stop. :-)
August 8th, 2006 at 7:16 pm
Interesting. If I could make a choice to resolve all .cm URLs as if they were .com then it would be GREAT! Must be optional though, as there may indeed be 2 or 3 actual websites with this extension. Could they just copy the valid .cm hosts and default everything else to resolve as .com ??? I suppose we’ll just have to watch http://blog.opendns.com/feed/ for the answers.
August 9th, 2006 at 12:05 am
Ahh, we won’t make a legit site stop working! No way.
We’re getting’ there… tick tick tick. :-)
August 9th, 2006 at 6:38 pm
To kill the suspense, here’s the news:
http://blog.opendns.com/2006/08/09/cameroon-takes-o-out-of-com/
John Roberts
OpenDNS
August 10th, 2006 at 9:04 am
I’m working behind a proxy server in a large company today so I can’t verify this added functionality yet, but I looked at the preferences page. Easy-to-use checkbox to indicate if you want this (not activated by default) The page says logging into an account may be required for future account options; wonder what is in development?
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