Along the same lines, for a time the Cameroonian TLD ".cm" was used where any mistyping of the TLD, like "ycombinator.cm" would go to a link farm. Somebody pai

Along the same lines, for a time the Cameroonian TLD ".cm" was used where any mistyping of the TLD, like "ycombinator.cm" would go to a link farm. Somebody paid some money to the local domain authority for that to happen. I believe the country's authority ended that; now a holder must be a Cameroonian entity to get a domain.