Insight into a domainer
May 23rd, 2007
Someoen pointed me to this fascinating article about Kevin Ham, one of the pioneers in the domainer space. This is the guy that recently made an agreement with the government of Cameroon (yes cameroon), to redirect all unregistered ‘.cm’ domains to his pages filled with ads. Yes, that’s right, the ultimate typo-squatting… try it — newyorktimes.cm, yahooo.com, they all go to www.agoga.com, a page owned by Ham.
Not sure I agree with the legitimacy of this practice, and hopefully we’ll see more browsers & DNS servers fixing our typos. There’s no reason why firefox can’t be smart enough to realize that if I typed newyorktimes.cm, and this domain isn’t registered, that I meant to go to the newyorktimes.com!
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