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Home 09 Aug 2006 Has Your Browser Been to Cameroon Lately? ICANN A recent message on Circle ID notes that Cameroon in west Africa has added a wild card to its .CM country domain. This means that anyone who tries to type something.com into his browser and types something.cm instead will in most cases end up at the web site the wild card points to, similar to what Verisign did with their infamous Sitefinder a few years ago. (I say most, because if you type the name of an actual .cm domain, you'll end up at that domain. More about that later.) See more ...   posted at: 23:02 :: permanent link to this entry :: 3 comments Stable link is https://jl.ly/ICANN/cameroon.html

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