Trademark attorneys are warning companies about a new target for cybersquatters known as “.cm,” which is the country code—or top level domain—for the West African nation of Cameroon. The dot-cm domain is a hot target for scammers, they say, due to “cm” being a common typographical error for “com” in the popular dot-com domain.
Attorneys say this is significant to brand owners because Internet users searching for brand owners’ Web sites frequently type dot-com as dot-cm and wind up on a bogus site. Not only is Web traffic lost, they say, but a brand name can get diluted or tainted along the way.
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