Comments on: .CM Auctions and Typo Traffic – What Are These Domains Really Worth?

By: JC

JC — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:07:52 +0000

Isn’t the $175 exactly what will keep the scammers away? I saw someone posting that they should charge 1 Euro…. imagine what would happen if they did that!

Scams happen when you can arbitrage the price of the domain and revenue from the scam. I’m sure that at this price some will be profitable but NOT that many.

Sounds like some of you are pissed off to find out you won’t be making easy money from .CM. To me, that’s a good thing.

By: jokes

jokes — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 23:49:07 +0000

Also I don’t think that the big companies can do anything about the typos. It’s an other think homes.com and homes.cm

By: humor

humor — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 23:46:34 +0000

I don’t intend to spent $175 a year for a typo (expept sex.cm )

By: Gary

Gary — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:31:39 +0000

…Trademark attorneys are warning companies about a new target for cybersquatters known as “.cm,”…

here we go: http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1202432459261

By: Sertleşme

Sertleşme — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:29:18 +0000

Wow, 175$/year was very steep indeed.

By: Estimating type in traffic for a domain — DomainTweeter

Estimating type in traffic for a domain — DomainTweeter — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:41:04 +0000

[...] keyword .com domain. I thought this might be a useful exercise after reading DomainNameNews.com recent editorial on .CM Typo Traffic and plan to write a follow up post applying this formula to alternate domains [...]

By: EM @ KING.NET

EM @ KING.NET — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:35:24 +0000

I wrote a similar opinion last June not to register .CM.
http://www.king.net/2009/06/cm-sunrise-period-opens-at-eurodns.html

Cheers,
EM

By: T

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:00:57 +0000

Countries like Cameroon, Colombia, Niger and Ethiopia should be ashamed. They should have all complained to IANA when they go their ccTLD extension and the people who came up with ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 as well, because they caused the problem in the first place.

The well know auction houses should also be closed down, as they all have auctioned trademark domains. Let’s burn them down.

I must also agree that .CM is too expensive. They shouldn’t be allowed to charge more than 1 Euro.

ICANN should take domains away from the .com holder which only park the domains, because they don’t provide useful content. Let’s kill domain parking.

BTW, only US trademarks should be allowed, the rest of the countries are scammers.

Did I forget anything ?

By: D

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 04:11:18 +0000

@Scott Roberts
If my father would be alive I am certain he would be proud of me. Also all people I know/friends would say “Ha, that’s smart (if you can get at least the reg. fee money back)”.

By: adam

adam — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:20:36 +0000

The other benefit Kevin Ham had that many don’t talk about is he could do the inverse math that dcmike just did. You have the .cm and you know it gets .3-.6% of the .com so now you know how much the .com would be worth to you. Pretty valuable insight when chasing dropping domains.