discuss Is .cam TLD for scamming and fishing?

Premiums · Mar 26, 2018

What do you think?

guillon · Mar 27, 2018

It is 2 things:

Things related to cameras;
An extension in which ".com" users should register the similar ".cam" to avoid confusion. See the list here.

jmcc · Mar 27, 2018

No. There are far worse gTLDs out there than .CAM.

Regards...jmcc

atinc · Mar 27, 2018

Probably.

I think meaningful websites with .cam is really limited. We can't even count 100 exact match or meaningful domains with this extension.

Great extension for hackers in my opinion.

centreurope · Mar 27, 2018

atinc said:
Probably.

I think meaningful websites with .cam is really limited. We can't even count 100 exact match or meaningful domains with this extension.

Great extension for hackers in my opinion.

Guillon will know much better than me, but as far as I know, the .cam project aims at becoming a reference in the video/livecam sector.
I've always been very dubious about the probabilty of success of such extensions, but I believe they don't count on scammers to build their success. And I guess they would even block them, in order to preserve their goal of being a quality extension.

blockchain · Mar 27, 2018

google.cam
ebay.cam
payapl.cam
amazon.cam
etc..
email providers should block this TLD. it's unsafe!!!

atinc · Mar 27, 2018

centreurope said:
Guillon will know much better than me, but as far as I know, the .cam project aims at becoming a reference in the video/livecam sector.
I've always been very dubious about the probabilty of success of such extensions, but I believe they don't count on scammers to build their success. And I guess they would even block them, in order to preserve their goal of being a quality extension.

Of course there will be good exact match domains for this extension. The problem I am trying to emphasize is the number of quality names are limited. And that is just my opinion.

I wouldn't be surprised to see a domain like sex.cam selling for 5 or even 6 figures.

But how many quality combinations can you have with this extension?

centreurope · Mar 27, 2018

atinc said:
The problem I am trying to emphasize is the number of quality names are limited. And that is just my opinion.

I wouldn't be surprised to see a domain like sex.cam selling for 5 or even 6 figures.

But how many quality combinations can you have with this extension?

I totally agree with you. For me this new tld has a very limited utility, if any.
The thing is that the original question, if I understood well, was if this extension had been created to attract scammers. To this, I don't think so.

Bob Hawkes · Mar 27, 2018

According to Namestat there are 5253 .cam registrations, of which 22 are in Alexa top 1M, which is not bad proportionally for real use (1 per 238 registered domains).

There have been two significant sales, both for $10,000, one for construction(.)cam and one for TimeLapse(.)cam.

In terms of abuse, so far the TLD has an excellent reputation so I don't think the speculation on this thread is supported by information. According to Spamhaus data as of right now 2.6% of active .cam websites are bad (spam, etc.) which is a very low ratio. This produces a badness index of 0.07. For comparison, .com has 7.4% and a score of 0.98 (lower is better).

While some purchasers might purchase hoping confusion with com, it does not seem that has happened significantly so far.

Disclosure: I do not own any .cam domains, nor involved in any official way with the extension, so no conflict of interest.

atinc · Mar 27, 2018

centreurope said:
if I understood well, was if this extension had been created to attract scammers. To this, I don't think so.

If that`s the question, I totally agree with you

MetBob said:
According to Namestat there are 5253 .cam registrations, of which 22 are in Alexa top 1M, which is not bad proportionally for real use (1 per 238 registered domains).

There have been two significant sales, both for $10,000, one for construction(.)cam and one for TimeLapse(.)cam.

In terms of abuse, so far the TLD has an excellent reputation so I don't think the speculation on this thread is supported by information. According to Spamhaus data as of right now 2.6% of active .cam websites are bad (spam, etc.) which is a very low ratio. This produces a badness index of 0.07. For comparison, .com has 7.4% and a score of 0.98 (lower is better).

While some purchasers might purchase hoping confusion with com, it does not seem that has happened significantly so far.

Disclosure: I do not own any .cam domains, nor involved in any official way with the extension, so no conflict of interest.

Thanks for the insights

Bob Hawkes · Mar 27, 2018

I would not bet a lot on this extension. However, if it takes off as a common place to see live webcams of e.g. tourist attractions or cities, traffic cameras, weather cameras, maybe event cameras, etc., then I can see some success. I was surprised at great names still available to hand register. Several major registrars have it available at about $10 to $12 first year (double to triple that to renew at cheapest). I did a look at what Google shows for active sites with the TLD in my country, a mix of music/entertainment, infomercials, and some adult content. Of course the webcam and camera TLDs cover somewhat the same area, and webcam is much more popular.

creataweb · Mar 27, 2018

Do you mean because it's similar to .com ? Also there exists: .cm & .co (similar to .com)

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