Tag Archives: .cm

Mon 24th August 2015
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Add ABC.cm to a list of Google Names - Looking at whois records for other cctlds on the heels of the .mx purchase, it looks like ABC.cm changed hands on 8/7. The domain looked to have been owned by a Chinese registrant. Of course .cm has been in the news before, Kevin Ham was once profiled in a Business 2.0 article that is published on CNN. Maybe Disney will care about this name if Google is indeed the buyer. The domain was dropped and registered in 2014 so a quick flip. From the article: And what few people know is that he’s also the ... read more ...
Thu 16th May 2013
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How most is a .cm domain value in 2013? - We’ll find out in an auction that ends today. .Cm, the country code for Cameroon, has been on an interesting ride. It previously struck a deal with Kevin Ham to wildcard the DNS and monetize the traffic. Then it sold .cm domains to all comers, brazenly marketing the domain as a typo of .com. That “relaunch”, if you will, was an unmitigated disaster. Bidders on domains that appeared to sell for a lot backed out, and the registry lost a bunch of billing files. I ... read more ...
Fri 29th April 2011
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Sedo.com To Hold 1 Character .CM Domain Name Auction Starting May 12th - Sedo is going to hold a domain auction of 1 character .CM domains from May 12th to May 19th. All the domains have a reserve range of $1-$499. Here is the list: L.cm 1.cm W.cm B.cm Q.cm 5.cm J.cm X.cm C.cm R.cm 6.cm K.cm D.cm S.cm Y.cm 7.cm F.cm T.cm Z.cm 8.cm M.cm 2.cm G.cm U.cm 9.cm N.cm 3.cm H.cm V.cm A.cm P.cm 4.cm i.cm I know that .cm domains have not taken off, but a one character domains in any extension have value and I see them selling on a pretty regular basis on Sedo.com in off extensions Google+Michael ... read more ...
Wed 30th December 2009
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2009 Domain Dunce Award: .CM Launch - A controversial “relaunch” goes awry. .CM, the country code top level domain name for The Republic of Cameroon, has a storied history amongst domainers. Kevin Ham struck a deal to wildcard the domain name, sending lots of typo traffic of .com domain names his way. Ham, including his deal with Cameroon, was the subject of a cover story in the late Business 2.0 magazine. This year Cameroon decided to open up .cm and offer it to individual registrants, and opted ... read more ...
Thu 19th November 2009
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More Problems for .CM Domain as Registry Loses Files - .Cm domain name registry NETCOM loses financial files. The “relaunch” of Cameroon’s .cm domain name stuttered out of the gate after many technical difficulties. Apparently those problems continue, and it highlights one of the risks of buying certain country code domain names. .Cm registry NETCOM has emailed its registrars informing them of data loss in its accounting systems, and admitting it didn’t have a data backup plan in place: Dear Registrars, our ... read more ...
Thu 24th September 2009
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Some .CM Prices In Free Fall, As Bidders Pass On NameJet Auctions - We told you about the earlier results of the .cm auctions at NameJet.com at the beginning of the month. However, the prices of  many of the .cm domains selling at NameJet.com, have been in a free fall, as bidders are passing on their chance to grab the domains. .cm auctions have been operating differently than normal NameJet.com auctions. Normally when a bidder defaults at NameJet.com auction, the domain is re-auctioned. However, with .cm domain auctions, NameJet.com has not  been re-auctioning ... read more ...
Wed 16th September 2009
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Maybe The Third Time Will Be The Charm: .CM Registrations “Go Live” On Sep 18th UTC - Just in from the .CM registry for the third time they have a start date for the Go Live registrations. The Go Live registration for .CM domain opens on September 18, 2009 at 08:00am UTC. The .CM registry also announced that all domains won at Namejet.com will be turned on as soon as paid for. Here is the official notice: “””Netcom.cm Sarl has decided to move the registration platform for .CM top-level domains to its own server instead of a hosted version with Cocca. This will allow Netcom more ... read more ...
Sun 6th September 2009
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Why Is Traffic From a .Com Typo OK, But Traffic From a .CM Is Not? - As you know, over the last few weeks, I have been reporting on the rollout of the .CM ccTLD, and not a post goes by, where I haven’t gotten at least one, and usually several comments from domainers, to the effect that, all that the .cm extension is for, is to serve as a typo of a .com,  and its only value is from misdirected traffic. So? For years I have seen .com typos and misspells,  sell for thousands, even hundreds of thousands of dollars and not once did I hear anyone comment negatively ... read more ...
Sat 5th September 2009
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Total Generated This Week From .CM Domains: $2 Million Dollars - I know many of you have no interest in .CM domains, however everyone should be impressed by the amount of money in the domain channel, now that the 1st weeks total for the .cm auctions have been tallied. According to NameJet.com,  2,000 .CM domains were auctioned by NameJet.com, at an average price of $625, for a total of $1,250,000 in auction fees. In addition, for each domain won at auction, registrants had to spend an additional $350 for a two year registration which totals another $750,000. So ... read more ...
Fri 4th September 2009
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Another Day, Another Six Figures In Sales For .CM Domains At NameJet.com - Well thanks to a few domainers, we complied a list of 44 of the 500 .cm domains that went to auction today. FreePorn.cm topped everyone’s list selling for $13,700. Here is the domains we have record of, and of course we are missing over 90% of the domains that sold today (assuming the other 450 domains sold for even $500 on average, probably low, there is over $300K in sales) Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Thu 3rd September 2009
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Another $115K In .CM Sales For NameJet, Just For The Domains We Tracked - Today at NameJet.com, the second of its 9 days of .cm auctions, the .cm domains we tracked sold for almost $115K. Once again there were 500 .cm domains auctioned off at Namejet and we tracked 40 of them. The highest sale today was for Yellowpages.cm for $30,100. Everyone should keep in mind that the amounts listed below are just for the auction, each winner still has to pay $350 for a 2 year registration in addition to the auction amount We picked up 4 domains today which are included in this list. Here ... read more ...
Wed 2nd September 2009
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NameJet Hauls In $500K In 1st Day .CM Auctions & That’s Only For The Domains On My List - As you know the first of 9 days of .CM auctions at closed at NameJet.com today with Hotels.cm and Sex.cm leading the pack. For just the .Cm domains I had on my list, NameJet.com hauled in $486K. Namejet.com said they had 4,500 .cm domains going to auction and I only had 200 on my list. My list therefore reflects only 5% of all .cm auctions, although I’m pretty sure I have many of the high sale domains on my radar. No matter how you feel about .CM domains, you have to be impressed with the amount ... read more ...
Tue 1st September 2009
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Hotels.cm Sells For $81K: Sex.cm Goes For $51K; as .CM Domains Begin To Close On NameJet.com - The NameJet.com auction for .CM domains with multiple preorders are started to close today with two big sales. The Domain Hotels.cm sold for $76,100 while sex.cm sold for 51,300. Coupons.cm sold for $20,100 There are quite a few other domains already into the five figures, which are closing throughout the afternoon, including Mail.cm $28 Porn.cm $22K Free.cm $18K We will recap after all the auctions close Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Mon 31st August 2009
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UPDATE: Sex.cm At $51K; Several Others Break The 5 Figure Mark - Over the weekend we published a post asking, now that the NameJet.com .cm auctions were underway,  how much Sex.cm would sell for. At the time we published the post, the high bid on the domain sex.cm was $12K. As of 2pm EST, Monday August 31st, with just less than 24 hours to go, the domain has a high bid of $51,100. Other .cm on my list getting some high bids are: Free.cm $12,600 Taobao.cm $12,100 Hotels.cm $10,100 Porn.cm $8,600 Pornhub.cm $5,200 Domain.cm $5,100 Insurance.cm $5,100 Music.cm $4,600 Youporn.cm ... read more ...
Sun 30th August 2009
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So What Will Sex.cm Sell For? - The .cm auctions are underway at NameJet.com, and bidding is already hot and heavy. This auction is for the .cm domain that had more than one pre-order during the landrush. Although the first .cm auction does close until Tuesday, several domains on my radar are already in the four figures. As we know the highest price ever paid for a domain is Sex.com ($12M-$14M depending on reports). We also know the domain cars.cm sold for $35K in the RickLatona .Cm auction over a month ago. Sex.net sold for $454,000 ... read more ...
Fri 28th August 2009
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NameJet .Cm Domain Name Auctions to Start Today - .Cm auctions should finally start today at NameJet. After many delays, NameJet will begin auctions today for .cm domain names. NameJet General Manager Steve Brown informed Domain Name Wire this morning that the sunrise and single pre-order .cm domains have now been added to the zone. Therefore, NameJet will proceed as planned with the auctions that will begin later today and close between Monday August 31st and Monday September 14th. General registrations for .cm ... read more ...
Wed 26th August 2009
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Breaking News: .Cm “Go Live” Postponed; Again - Well, in what now seems to be now an “official continuing saga”, the .cm registry has postponed for a second time, the ‘Go Live’ registration period, which was to begin at 8pm EST tonight. Once again the delay seems to be due to “technical issues”. Once again the postponement was announced just minutes before the “Go Live” was to go live. (thanks to our friends at Moniker.com for passing this information on to us) I don’t know about you, but for me this is becoming quite scary. It ... read more ...
 
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.Cm Live Registrations Start At 8PM EST Tonight - The .CM registry has announced that the “Go Live” registrations for .cm domains opens at 8PM EST tonight. This means,  you will be able to register any available .cm domain for registration fees. Many of the top domain registrars will start accepting live registrations for .cm domains. Moniker.com for example is charging $119 a year, for a live registration, with a one year minimum, while domains on pre-order were priced at NameJet.com/Enom for $350 for a 2 year minimum term.  Enom.com will ... read more ...
 
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NameJet: .CM Pre-Orders Yield 11,000 Registrations: 4,500 Domains Going To Auction - According to NameJet.com, the central clearing house for all .CM Pre-orders, they received over 36,000 Pre-orders for .CM domains. Out of the 36,000 Pre-orders, 15,500 were for  unique domain names. 11,000 domains only had one pre-order and will be processed today and tomorrow and will go be awarded for the registration fee of $350, for a two year registration. These domains show a status of “Single Pre-Order” on the .CM Pre-Order page in the customer’s NameJet account. NameJet.com says that ... read more ...
Sun 9th August 2009
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NameJet.com Finally Sends Out An Update On The .CM Landrush and Auction - Well its been over a week since the .CM Landrush was to begin and Namejet.com has finally sent out a notice on the status of the .CM landrush and auctions, which was suppose to close on July 31. Readers of TheDomains.com got most of this information days ago, but NameJet has just released updated info on the .CM launch even though it was suppose to be rolled out over a week ago. Interestingly enough, although people are being given 2 more weeks to submit .CM domains, if you have already submitted ... read more ...
Fri 7th August 2009
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.CM Domain LandRush To Re-Open; Live .CM Registrations Further Delayed - The seemingly, unending sage of the .CM Landrush, and live registration mode, has gotten another push back. The .CM registry announced today, that the Landrush (the pre-order process) for .CM domains, which closed back on July 31st, will now be re-opened for two more weeks, starting on Monday. The registry will not accept Live registrations until August 27th. The following is posted on the .CM registry site this morning: “””First of all we would like to apologize for the delay of the “Go ... read more ...
Thu 6th August 2009
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.CM LandRush To Go Live Tomorrow? - The registry for the .cm ccTLD has updated their site to indicate that they expect the Land Rush for .cm domains to start tomorrow. The update on the site says: Dear Registrars, Netcom.cm Sarl is working together with CAMTEL to get the name server issue resolved. We expect to announce the new date for the go live of .CM this Friday, 7th of August 2009. We sincerely apologize for the inconveniences caused. Best regards, Moustapha Saya Kaigama CEO of Netcom.cm Sarl Of course today is Thursday August ... read more ...
Fri 31st July 2009
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Technical Problems Postpone The .CM LandRush - The .cm domain name registry announced, today, that the landrush (first come,  first served), domain registration for  .cm domain names, originally due at 00:00 UTC tomorrow, has been postponed due to technical problems. “”Unrelated to the widely reported cable fault affecting Internet access in West Africa at present, the .cm registry have cited technical difficulties with their root name servers. The .cm registry have currently postponed the launch until further notice, although it’s anticipated ... read more ...
Wed 22nd July 2009
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Domain Name News Bytes for Wednesday, Jul 22 - A brief look at domain name news. .cm, .info, and other stories worth reading. Is the .cm landrush a blight on domainers? Chad Kettner thinks so. I tend to agree. Rightly or wrongly, it’s easy for the media to point to major domain name companies supporting the .cm landrush and saying “see, they’re all cybersquatters”. I also question the amount of .cm typo traffic. Personally, I think .co is much more common. You also wonder if parking ad feed providers ... read more ...
Wed 15th July 2009
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Cars.Cm Sells For $35K To Lead Rick Latona In Over $100K .CM Auction Sales - The Rick Latona Auction of .CM domains just closed with a total of $103,850 in sales. cars.cm                              $35,500 jobs.cm                              $10,000 drugstore.cm                    $5,000 games.cm                          $5,000 juegos.cm                          $5,000 loan.cm                              $5,000 401k.cm                             ... read more ...