The business model behind .cm websites
July 9th, 2007
Ever wondered what happens when we type a website name ending in .cm instead of .com. Well this is what happens. The .cm country code is owned by Cameroon. Not many websites are registered in the country. But the similarilty of .cm with .com makes it a big business opportunity. Kevin Ham, the domain king who has built a $300 million empire on domain names, sent some of his people to Cameroon to discuss the possibility of moving the .cm traffic to his website. This is what happens. When an internet user types a website with .cm extension, it gets transferred to a server in Cameroon. If the website is not registered with them it gets transferred to the website “agoga.com”. Agoga’s servers query Yahoo to find ads related to the typed name, which are then displayed on a parked page. Whenever a user clicks on an ad, Yahoo pays Ham, who shares an undisclosed slice of the revenue with Cameroon.
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1. Douala | July 5th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
First of all thank you for a such wonderfull topic, well i have to say it is difficult for me to say if i agree with you or not. I will read it for a second time and let you know what i think
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