http://mikeward.net/2006/07/11/opendns-not-great-but-progress-nevertheless/ Internet technologies Sun, 23 Nov 2008 20:51:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0 http://mikeward.net/2006/07/11/opendns-not-great-but-progress-nevertheless/#comment-21 Tue, 08 Aug 2006 20:01:22 +0000 http://mikeward.net/2006/07/11/opendns-not-great-but-progress-nevertheless/#comment-21 [...] OK so I’m following Kevin Murphy’s lead again, but I’m intrigued by the nation of Cameroon’s inevitable rise to type-in traffic stardom. I’m referring to their change in policy to allow any requests for any unspecified .cm domains to resolve to a PPC page that they can make money from. I remember the outcry when Verisign tried it, but as pointed out Cameroon does not fall under any jurisdiction that has any power to make them stop. Even OpenDNS can not help here, since HTTP requests to .cm domains may in fact be legitimate. Well OK, I may never have gone to a .cm site before today, but the point remains valid. [...] […] OK so I’m following Kevin Murphy’s lead again, but I’m intrigued by the nation of Cameroon’s inevitable rise to type-in traffic stardom. I’m referring to their change in policy to allow any requests for any unspecified .cm domains to resolve to a PPC page that they can make money from. I remember the outcry when Verisign tried it, but as pointed out Cameroon does not fall under any jurisdiction that has any power to make them stop. Even OpenDNS can not help here, since HTTP requests to .cm domains may in fact be legitimate. Well OK, I may never have gone to a .cm site before today, but the point remains valid. […]

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