EuroDns.com laid out the dates for the rollout of the .cm extension, which certainly will be a highly sort after country code.
.CM is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the Republic of Cameroon.
As we know, .cm is a frequently hit typo, when someone directly navigates to a .com., and has quite a history.
In a recent auction held by Rick Latona, many of the registry owned .cm domains sold with Vegas.cm the highest priced on at $15,500.
The Sunrise phase of the .CM registry rollout will begin on June 15th 2009 at 9:00 UTC and will be opened until July 14th 2009 at 23:59:59 UTC.
The Sunrise period allows all trademark owners to register at the earliest stage and thus protect their brand name in the .CM extension.
During the Sunrise phase, the minimum registration period is 2 years and applicants must hold a valid and issued trademark at the time of application. If there is more than one valid Sunrise application for the same domain name, the name will be awarded to the registrant with the oldest registered trademark.
Each domain application costs 360 EUR with a non-refundable fee of 60 EUR, including a two years term.EuroDns.com is one of those accepting registrations for the .cm
The Landrush period will begin on July 15th, 2009, 0:00:01 UTC until July 31st, 2009, 0:00:01 UTC, during which all applications will be subjected to a premium fee and an auction system, with a minimum registration time of 2 years. Indeed, in case there is more than one application per domain, the domain will go into an auction system that will be held shortly after the end of the Landrush period.
The price for each domain name application will be 260 EUR, including a two years term.
The Live registration period will begin on August 1st, 2009 at 0:00:01 UTC. At this point .CM domains can be registered on a first come, first served basis. The minimum registration term is 1 year and registrations at EuroDns.com will be 80 EUR per year.
For each .cm domain registered, “a certain percentage” will go the foundation “Flowers in the Desert”. The .CM will also contribute to the development of Internet and e-commerce on the African market and push its expansion.
so much for agoga.com
I think that Vegas.cm price is in Euros – after conversion it was $20,268.
Glad to read this – I have been wondering, and waiting for this extension to become available..
I havent been watching this so what has happend with the Reinvent deal with the Cameroon Government?
Sorry if Im brining up old news just didnt know they lost the contract.
Regards,
Rob
Robbie
The article effectively killed the deal, and to the benefit of all other domainers.
Sometimes if you get the deal of a lifetime you keep it quite
Whoopie. Spammers and scammers landrush!
Show me one develop .cm that is not a rip off of the .com version.
Show me one reason why anyone would develop a .cm that is not designed to catch typo traffic.
Rob
Nobody is going to develop one.
Having said that, there is nothing wrong with having a non-trademark, generic term with a .cn extension, sex.cn. I’ll take that one
Is EuroDns.com the only registry where we can register .cm names?
After .pro, .tel… now .cm hummm I don’t see any interest in having a .cm paying higher fees than .pro and .tel that are some how valuable as .pro is for professionals and .tel is designed for specific uses. But if .CM was for “typo” I won’t reg any in lanrush but could get 1 or 2 after for generic or geo but if it was already taken, then not worth trying to reg others.
The Kevin Ham story about .CM is just that in the past some people makes error in typing com, but now tell me how many are you having miss the letter “o” in com? If buying that .cm for generating revenues on typo, forget about that! For me, it’s REG FEE for any domains like Vegas.cm too.
So Michael shouldn’t people at Domain conferences called Mr. Ham a cybersquatter and not given him awards ? Or is it only for the smaller squatter that is not apart of the in crowd? Let me say I have nothing against Mr. Ham but it seems hypocritical. Again IMO
Great update on TLD .cm
WTF
My understanding of the deal with the .cm registry as it was, is that all .cm type-ins went to one of the parked pages. As such they did not discriminate in which domains resolved, trademark vs. non-trademarked terms.
You can draw your own conclusions what that amounted to.
By the way this story, as far as Dr. Ham is concerned is over a year old.
Doc Ham was loaded with TMs in the past, still is but dropped and especially sold lots of these and has perect cover with his own parking, registrar, whois protection…
Michael I am not saying that he still doing it, I just find the hypocrisy off putting, they champion him, but yell about others. I don’t own any tm domains, do not have a problem with Mr. Ham, its just the hypocrisy that’s off IMO
WTF
Understood
“but now tell me how many are you having miss the letter “o” in com? If buying that .cm for generating revenues on typo, forget about that! ”
The domains have type in traffic. Look at the alexa rank of agoga.com and you will see that they have traffic. Now alexa rank is going up, as the wildcard has been disabled.
.cm = “pipedream”.
In my experience monetzing about a dozen high-profile .cm names (just prior to the Ham era) I did notice that type-in traffic wasn’t all that great. There’s some value there but for the price of registration the vast majority of names probably will not cover their fees. Certainly not from PPC and most definitely not in the current environment.
Maybe if one waits and only pays the $100/yr or so AND has better use for the traffic then PPC -OK. Otherwise buyer beware.