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[ga] .CM Wild-card

  • To: vint@xxxxxxxxxx, steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Subject: [ga] .CM Wild-card
  • From: Danny Younger <dannyyounger@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2006 09:26:25 -0700 (PDT)
  • Cc: ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Domainkey-signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=qgS2VrpqQoIzsGGFc+zO5XnPXB1vgDBEn9ke7k5ooGkqX60v9EYJIb3hweFOmJavpXDgWfY/w7pI8V+4XnUaJBYRE/rlaTShEVq7RntJaEFW13qwJkVUUVsY+OkZKxopDYQm6Tsfdty4EG7InjxdaH5zR4yEZzlfHDCu4dcThek= ;
  • Sender: owner-ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Dear Vint and Steve,

On CircleID John Berryhill writes:  "The .cm
(Cameroon) ccTLD operators have discovered that since
their TLD is simply one omitted letter away from .com,
that there is a gold mine in the typo traffic that
comes their way. Accordingly, Cameroon has now
wild-carded its ccTLD and is monetizing the traffic."

Even nonsensical meaningless domains such as
http://www.16759jetuy76vbmejyd761lk.cm resolve to a
monetized parking page.  

In view of the earlier findings and recommendations of
the Stability and Security Committee (posted at
http://www.icann.org/committees/security/ssac-report-09jul04.pdf
), namely, "Synthesized responses should not be
introduced into top-level domains (TLDs) or zones that
serve the public," and "Changes in registry services
should take place only after a
substantial period of notice, comment and consensus
involving both the technical community and the larger
user community", how will ICANN address this issue?



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