Tag Archives: .me

Mon 5th November 2012
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TechCrunch Covers Offersby.Me & Yes They Own The .Com - TechCrunch just covered another .Me site, this time its Offersby.Me which is a group buying site. Interestingly the company also owns the .com version of the domain name, but is sticking with the branding of the site using the .Me extension. According to TechCrunch: “”Adam Goldberg did quite a bit of research before soft-launching OffersBy.me last spring. The ex-Oracle, ex-Google entrepreneur and ClearSaleing co-founder knows a thing or two about ad analytics and has taken this experience with ... read more ...
Fri 10th August 2012
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Forbes Shines The Light On .Me Domains Including Meet.me - Forbes.com just told the world about .Me domains and highlighted Meet.me as one of the top 10 sites using a .Me domain that people should keep an eye on. “After you’ve found the guts to start your own venture, have assembled the right team, and have an initial product, you start brainstorming company names. As you’re brainstorming company names, you cross them with available domain names. You quickly realize the only decent length “.com”s left are “apsoif.com”. ” “Sadly, even if ... read more ...
Fri 13th July 2012
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Let’s Face It; Sedo.com Generic .Me Auction, It Was A Bust - The Sedo.com Generic .Me domain name auction that concluded yesterday was, well there is no other way to say it, a bust. Out of the 190 domain names for sale only 8 domain names sold and the vast majority never even got a bid. The auction was run in conjunction with Brands-and-Jingles whose principal Mark Kychma told had to say: “The result are very disappointing – Brands-and-Jingles is regularly selling .ME names in the range $5k-$50k.” “This auction failed to recognize the value of some ... read more ...
 
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Digg.com, 91 On Alexa, Is Sold & Buyer Betaworks Is Folding It Into News.Me - According to a blog post on its site, Digg.com was just sold to Betaworks who will be folding Digg.com into News.Me which is also owned by Betaworks. “We couldn’t be happier to announce that the next generation of Digg will live on with the team from Betaworks which will be combining Digg with News.me, a Betaworks company with an iPad app, iPhone app and daily email that delivers the best stories shared by your friends on Facebook and Twitter. ” Digg launched seven years ago. “To date, we’ve ... read more ...
Wed 11th July 2012
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The Sedo Generic .Me Domain Name Auction Ends Tomorrow & 53 Domains Have A Bid - The Sedo generic .Me domain name auction ends tomorrow Thursday July 12 starting at Noon EST. As of publication with just about 24 hours to go out of the 190 domain names in the auction 53 have at least 1 bid on them but only 2 domains have reached reserve. Shared.me has a high bid of $999 and has hit reserve as has the domain, Recall.me The domain namechic.me has the most number of bids 7 but a high bid of only $400 just under its top reserve range of $499. Here all domain names with at least one ... read more ...
Sun 24th June 2012
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New Study Shows 18% Of Business That Have The Word “Me” In Its Name, Use a .Me Address - 20Spot.me, About.me, acade.me, Adlinks.me, Advise.me, Afterschool.me, AppleSupport.me, APPSPIRE.me, Appsify.me, apta.me, askSocial.me, awesome.me, Binh.me, blip.me, BoardRoom.Me, BoaSaude.Me, BookNow.me, Born2B.Me, brandr.me, Breef.me, Breev.me, Business.me, CampusRadio.ME, Careerplan4.me, Cater2.me, Cegep.me, CheckInOn.Me, cnap.me, co2neutralize.me, code.me, completesuccess.me, csharp.me, Ctact.me, Decora.me, DesksNear.Me, Disguises.Me, distinkt.me, Doktori.me, Domain.ME, dreamtby.me, DURK.ME (Do ... read more ...
Wed 20th June 2012
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Sedo Joins With Brands-and-Jingles For Domain Auction Of 190 .Me Domains Including: Tagged.me; Follows.me, Shared.Me - According to a press release out tonight, “Sedo.com is running in partnership with Brands-and-Jingles is holding an auction of  190 premium .ME domain  “at the level of the nominal prices ranging between $149 and $999.” Unlike some of the recent registry owned .Me domains that only had keywords, this auction contains some call to action type of domain names. “Most of the names were secured during the land rush and were already prolonged up to six years upfront leaving the new buyers with ... read more ...
Mon 7th May 2012
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How Hot Are .Me Domains? This Company Covered By TechCrunch Goes With A Typo Of a Hack - A Techcrunch story last week passed through the domain name community without comment but it caught my eye since the story was about a tec company not only building their brand around a .Me domain but a Web 2.0 misspell or hack of what other call a true hack So the domain at question is Recmnd.Me which of course is a misspell of recommend.me, a Flickr.com type of domain if you will It wouldn’t all be that surprising except that as you might have guessed already the Recmnd.Me folks don’t own recommend.me Nor ... read more ...
Thu 26th April 2012
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Sedo Announces Next .Me Registry Auction; We Have All 200 Domains To Be Auctioned - Sedo just  announced the next .Me branded auction of registry owned  premium .ME domain names. The auction begins on May 26, 2012 and runs until May 31, 2012. In all there are 200 .Me domain names included in the auction As in the previously couple of .Me Sedo auctions, the list is light on call to action or verb domains and has a lot of keywords and Geographic domains. Here is the full list Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Mon 19th December 2011
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.Me Announces Another Auction Of Registry Owned .Me Domains On Sedo - SEDO and the .ME Registry have announced they have partnered for domain name auction of registry owned .Me domain names. The auction begins Feb. 2, 2012. There are 179 .Me domain names in the auction and here they are:   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Tue 6th December 2011
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Secure.Me Bought For $7K Covered by TechCrunch.com - Yet again another startup using a .Me domain name got covered by TechCrunch.com tonight; Secure.me Secure.me was bought through Afternic.com in August for $7k. According to Techcrunch.com Secure.me is “an online service that analyzes your Facebook profile for any data that’s putting your privacy at risk”. The Techcrunch article details the service in depth and is another nice showcase for a verb .Me domain. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Wed 16th November 2011
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Visa Launches V.Me - Visa just launched a site under V.Me and it looks like their “Wallet” solution “”V.me is a new service from Visa that lets you shop without sharing your card account information with the seller when you pay.”” “”Shop online or on your mobile device.” “Get timely alerts for your Visa card. ” “With one secure account and password, you can shop with confidence.”” So using V.me you can according to the site: “Make payments without sharing your card account information with ... read more ...
Fri 30th September 2011
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.Me Registry To Auction Off 150 Previously Unreleased Premium .Me Domain Names On Sedo - 222.me, 444.me, 555.me, 777.me, 800.me, 888.me, account.me, accountant.me, accounting.me, air.me, america.me, american.me, ant.me, apartments.me, arab.me, asian.me, astrology.me, bargain.me, baseball.me, basketball.me, beaver.me, beef.me, bike.me, bogota.me, brisbane.me, cab.me, calls.me, cam.me, camera.me, celeb.me, celebrity.me, cellphones.me, chatrooms.me, cheerleaders.me, chicago.me, chinese.me, christmas.me, commerce.me, communication.me, company.me, computer.me, computers.me, concert.me, concerttickets.me, ... read more ...
Mon 15th August 2011
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TechCrunch: Google Gets Android.Me: “.Me Domain Names Are Starting To Get In Vogue” - According to TechCrunch.com, Google has very recently gained ownership over the domain Android.me. “.me domain names are starting to get in vogue lately.” “Google worked on the Ro.me project, for instance, and there are plenty of other examples such as About.me, which was acquired by our parent company AOL, but also Ask.me, Connect.me, txt.me, Blog.me, Blip.me, With.me and News.me, a joint project from bit.ly and The New York Times).” “then there are startups like Tango, Kiip and Formspring, ... read more ...
Thu 4th August 2011
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TechCrunch: Just.Me Raises $600K in Seed Funding - According to TechCrunch.com, a startup playing in the social and mobile spaces, Just.me, has just raised $600,000 in seed funding LLC. “Just.me was founded by Keith Teare, a serial entrepreneur and a co-founder of TechCrunch” “Teare previously co-founded RealNames Corporation, and The EasyNet Group.” “When asked if just.me has any co-founders, Teare responded ‘it’s just me.’ Teare says that just.me will launch later this year.” Nice to see another .Me getting traction. Google+Michael ... read more ...
Wed 20th July 2011
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.Me Celebrates 3rd Anniversary and .Co Celebrates the 1st - Two registries are celebrating their anniversary today. The .Me Registry is 3 years old today and in a blog post, says there are 530,000 domains .Me domain names registered in 200 countries. 52.92% of all .ME registrations are based the United States; 7.68% are from the United Kingdom. 3.82% were registered in Germany 3.81% in Canada, and 3.63% in Japan. “During the Registry’s last fiscal year (July 2010-June 2011), the registration of .ME domains grew by 27%; which, according to VeriSign’s ... read more ...
Mon 16th May 2011
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Google Goes With Domain Hack RO.ME For “Revolutionary Web Project” - The .ME Registry announced today that it assigned a premium domain name to Google for a web project called Ro.Me calling it a “Revolutionary Web Project” The site, was launched worldwide on May 12, Ro.Me is the destination of a new music experience called “3 Dreams of Black,” by writer/director Chris Milk. The site, featuring the revolutionary and open-source 3D WebGL browser technology, was developed in partnership with Google and takes visitors on a visual voyage ... read more ...
Mon 2nd May 2011
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Is “Me” Becoming To Apps Like “i” Is To Products? Blip.Me, Play.Me, Caddy.Me, Flirt.Me, Tango.Me & Those Are Just One Owned By The App Developers - .Me domain names are increasing being used for Apps and I would say are probably becoming the word of choice in naming Apps similar to how “i” has been used by Apple and other companies in the computer/Tech sector. Blip.Me, Play.Me, Caddy.Me, Flirt.Me, Tango.Me are just a few of the Apps in which the developer also owns the matching domain. We wrote about bit.ly new App News.me which just launched a couple of weeks ago. The maker of Blackberry last week recently purchased the App Tungle.Me Of ... read more ...
Thu 21st April 2011
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Bit.ly Launches News.Me Today & AllThingsD.com Covers It - Bit.ly’s social news iPad app, Just launched today and is live for free download at the iTunes store. The name of the app and matching site is News.me The app and the site are already getting press as yesterday,  All Things Digital, covered the App pointing out that: News.me will cost $0.99 a week, or $34.99 a year. It will be available as an iPad app, using Apple’s subscription service, or as an e-mail newsletter. “News.me will provide users with curated Twitter streams that highlight “the ... read more ...
Thu 14th April 2011
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.ME Becomes 2nd Registry To Waive Renewal Fees For Domain Holders In Japan: Still No Word From Verisign - Today following a similar announcement by the .Org registry a few days ago, the .ME registry also announced its was going to help domain holders located in Japan by giving them automatic renewals of their domains. Here is the  press release by the .Me registry “The recent devastating disasters in Japan have left many registrants without the ability to renew their domain names. The .ME Registry would like to alleviate concerns amongst Japanese .ME domain name holders by waiving ... read more ...
Thu 3rd March 2011
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UPDATED: Sony Announces The Development Of Move.Me But They Don’t Own The Domain, we Do - In what is turning into be one of the strangest domains stories it appears that Sony Launched a new product yesterday called Move.me Here is the post from Sony blog: You can check out the nice new logo right here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/playstationblog/5490006732/ “It lets folks develop Move applications for noncommercial use: academia and research and the like. It’ll be available in some time this spring.” “Sony says the development of Move.Me represents a chance for “PlayStation ... read more ...
Fri 19th November 2010
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Quick Poll: What Was The Best Buy From The Sedo .Me Auction - The .me registry auctioned off its owned domain names today on Sedo.com generating some $400,000 in sales. Now its time for you to weigh in on how which domains you thought were the best buy. You get to chose 2 this time out of our list of 20 domains. If you think a different .me that sold was better than one’s we selected you can pick “something else” and if you don’t like any you can selected “none were best buys” In any event you can vote on the right (you can pick 2 but at the same ... read more ...
Thu 18th November 2010
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Sedo .Me Domain Auction Nets $400K In Sales: Here Are The Results - The auction for the registry owned .me domains ended on Sedo.com today with the auction ringing up $400K in sales. The auction was lead by Like.me a killer domain. The 2nd highest priced domain, I simply don’t get which was contacts.me at $15,600. Contact.me I get Contacts.me I don’t get at all. We wound up picking up 4 domains. Congrats to all winners. Here is the UNOFFICIAL list of the 110 .me domains that sold for $2K or more (there were others that sold under $2K): Like.me    26,500 contacts.me   ... read more ...
 
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Like.Me Sells For $26,500 On Sedo - The premium .me registry owned domain auction is winding down on Sedo.com, but the domain name Like.Me just sold for $26,500. With the “like” button all across the Internet thanks to Facebook it isn’t surprising that this domain wound up being the highest priced domain. There are 2 trademarks registered on the term “like me” including one by likeme, Inc. We will be back with the full results once the last auction closes. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Tue 9th November 2010
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BBCNews.co.uk: “Colombian Domain (.Co) Challenges .Com” - A story published by BBCNews.com today, talks about the growing popularity of .Co domain names as .Co now approaches 600,000 registrations. The story quotes Juan Calle the CEO of .CO Internet S.A.S., the company which is operating the registry for the ccTLD. How big are .Co’s plans: “”We are going for a global audience and in three to five years we hope to have three to five million registrations.” The article also states that: “38% of firms registering for a .co domain are in the US, with ... read more ...