Did you go for a .CM Domain in the recent .CM domain landrush? Let’s hope you made out better than I did.

I was skeptical of the process at first, especially after the repeated delays in opening up the registration.  After all, Cameroon is a rather obscure place and who knows what their intentions are (aside from huge profits on domain names, that is).

So I put in my landrush application for a domain and plunked down my $150.  While I won’t tell you the exact domain, I will say that it was a misspelling of a large retailer’s domain, and it was probably one that will get a TON of accidental traffic.  I was actually fairly hopeful that I would get the domain as I didn’t think there would be much competition.

I was wrong.  I got a call from my registrar telling me they were charging my card, and I assumed that meant I had the domain.  Days later, I check the domain and it was occupied by a lackluster ad-placeholder page.  What a waste!  I don’t doubt that I could have generated $20k plus a month in referral fees had I gotten the domain, but alas:

“Regret is a wasted emotion.”