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Cameroon Ads Adware

Owners of the .cm Top Level Domain, Cameroon, have stumbled across a controversial new business model. Noticing that their TLD is only one letter short of .com, the Cameroons have now added a wildcard entry to their DNS records pointing all unresolved queries to an ad-based search engine. Unfortunately, ICANN has little control over what a country can do with its own TLD, unlike the earlier attempt by Verisign on the actual .com TLD

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