cm-domain Domain

The top-level domain .cm is country-specific and is used for websites that deal with the African country Cameroon or are used by companies and private persons living there. This top-level domain was launched on April 29, 1995 and is administered by Cameroon Telecommunications (CAMTEL for short) with headquarters in Yaoundé.

History and current award guidelines

In the beginning, this domain extension was only used by the authorities in Cameroon and was not publicly assigned to companies or private individuals. However, the responsible Network Information Center opened access to the domain extension in November 2008 and introduced three second-level domains. Since then, this domain ending can also be used by companies and private persons who are not resident in Cameroon.

Use

Today, the domain extension .cm is used by numerous companies that have invested in the economy of this African country and still do. Compared to most other African countries, Cameroon has been able to profit from a liberal economic policy for many years. The economic centre of the country is the port city of Douala, located in the west of the country on the Atlantic Ocean. Cameroon's export goods include oil and bauxite, iron ore and gold as well as diamonds. However, the country's mineral resources have not yet been exploited as intensively as in other African countries. However, most of the approximately 27 million people living in Cameroon do not have access to the WWW. Therefore, it is mainly travellers who share the beauty of Cameroon and therefore the beauty of Africa on their own website on a website with .cm domain extension. These travellers have discovered in a very special way what Africa and especially Cameroon has to offer. Because no other country in Africa except Cameroon has so many different climate zones and therefore so many natural phenomena to offer.

Meaning

The meaning of the domain extension .cm is quite small. A lot of people can read what is written on these web pages. Most of the content posted by private persons or companies etc. from Cameroon is in the two official languages, English and French.