Tag Archives: .me

Fri 17th September 2010
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GetPersonalWith.Me Lists Avaliable FirstName.Me For €4.99 - Blacknight Solutions, has launched a site that features available first name .me domains that are available for registration and priced at only €4.99 for a year of registration. The site, GetPersonalwith.Me, list thousands of available first names all available at time of publication. You can search for your first name and last name and the site will check to see if they’re available or and if it is not the system will suggest a few alternatives. I still think .Me domains are valuable especially ... read more ...
Fri 10th September 2010
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New York Times Partnering For News Service during News.me - .Me gets another vote of confidence. The New York Times is collaborating with technology incubator Betaworks for a new services at News.me. This comes from a reliable source: a blog at The New York Times… Mr. Zimbalist said that The Times Company, which participated in Betaworks’ most recent round of financing, struck an arrangement where Betaworks would buy a prototype of the app that was created by members of The Times Company’s development labs, and that ... read more ...
Tue 20th July 2010
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What If You Held A Domain Auction & No One Showed Up: What Happened To The .ME Geo Auction? - An auction of some really good Geo .Me domains concluded yesterday on NameJet.com You probably didn’t know about it. Don’t feel bad, your not alone. Personally I saw no press releases, blog coverage, or even one story on the auction. There was a small box of domains on NameJet.com’ home page about it, but there was no way to click on any link to find out about all the domains in the auction you could only do it one at a time and only for the highlighted domains. I was going to write about the ... read more ...
Mon 12th July 2010
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Is “Google Me” In The Works as a Facebook Killer? Google Owns Both Versions - CNN is reporting that a new service called “Google Me” maybe in the works, The report also citing Tech Crunch says that Google Games is a definate go, in conjunction with the gaming company Zynga maker of the “FarmVille” game. Google owns the domain GoogleGames.com. However the report says that Google may have its eye on Facebook and may go with “Google Me” to launch a site that would compete with FaceBook. Google owns the domain Googleme.com as well as Google.Me. Yahoo recently announced ... read more ...
Wed 2nd June 2010
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GoDaddy Launches YouTube Competitor during Video.me - Domain registrar launches a video sharing service on .me domain name. GoDaddy has launched a video sharing service at Video.me, just the latest .me domain name that the company (which has a stake in the .me registry) has created a product around. After relaunching .me, GoDaddy founder Bob Parsons dumped his BobParsons.tv personal brand in favor of BobParsons.me. The company also uses VerySocial.me for its Social Visibility offering. GoDaddy plans to launch a web ... read more ...
Tue 20th April 2010
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Yahoo Acquires Me.Me - Sedo.com announced today that brokered the sale of  the domain name Me.Me to Yahoo!. The domain name was previously owned by the .Me Registry. Yahoo! has acquired the domain name to enhance the brand of its social networking site, meme.yahoo.com, which allows users to connect and share their common interests. “Thanks to Sedo’s services and the consultation of Sedo broker, Jeff Gabriel, we were able to obtain the Me.Me domain name, which is an essential component of our online branding strategy,” ... read more ...
Thu 15th April 2010
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.Me First Names Start Picking Up Steam As James.Me Sells For $5K & 39 More Domains Are Added - On the 3rd day, of the 5 day Personal Name auction running on NameJet.com, one domain hit just short of $5K and the registry announced that they were adding 39 new domains to the auction. On today’s front, here are results for the domains we were tracking: james.me $4,911 john.me $2,711 jack.me $2,200 madison.me $1,115 johnson.me $760 jose.me $670 justin.me $640 jason.me $605 lisa.me $600 kevin.me $530 kelly.me ... read more ...
Mon 12th April 2010
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.Me First Name Auction Results Day One: Pretty Much Every Domain Sells For Under $1K - The first day of the five day .Me auctions for first and last name, Domains just closed with pretty much every domain selling for under $1K. There were a few exceptions. I saw Anthony.me at $1,600. Adam.me went for $1,300 Austin.me sold for $1,100 which is not only a first name but a name of a city. While the below is not a complete list of all the domains that sold it should give you a feel for how day 1 went. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Sun 11th April 2010
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Next Big Auction: The .ME First and Last Names Start Closing Monday, Will Buyers Show Up? - The .ME personal domain auction, starts closing on NameJet.com, tomorrow April 12 and runs every day next week, ending on April 16th. In all there are 313, popular first and last names in the auction. As of time of publication some 24 hours before the first group of domain auctions end, there has been very little activity. The most bidded upon domain is James.me that has 13 bidders. Actually no other domain has more than 10 bidders. Also the current high bid prices, well they just aren’t that high. Adam.Me ... read more ...
Thu 11th March 2010
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American Express Wants .Me Domain, Samsung Goes After ccTLDs - American Express gets into .me UDRP game, Samsung starts collecting ccTLDs. American Express has joined a list of companies to use domain name arbitration to get their .me domain names. The company filed a complaint with WIPO for AmericanExpress.me, which is owned by a New Jersey resident. The domain currently has a GoDaddy parking page. First ad? “American Express® Cards”. Other companies/brands to get their corresponding .me domain names through UDRP ... read more ...
Tue 2nd March 2010
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First Names, Last Names & Geo Gems, The .Me Auction Is Going To Be Huge - The .ME Registry and NameJet announced the that it would be auctioning off 300 “personal” domain names reserved by the registry, starting in just over a month on April 5th. When it comes to .me I think I know the extension well as I’m the guy who bought the most expensive .me sold by the registry to date, well it was date.me that I bought to go with meet.met and marry.me. Take my word for it. When its comes to .me the extension is valuable. After these natural sayings and phrases that go bang ... read more ...
Fri 13th November 2009
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iPhone App Developer Loses .Me Domain Dispute - Project.me (the company) fails to capture project.me domain name. Here’s a follow up to a story back in September — iPhone App developer Project.me has lost its attempt to get the domain name Project.me through domain arbitration. After failing to acquire the domain name from its owner, the company filed a complaint with World Intellectual Property Organization, arguing that the Project.me domain name infringed on its applied-for project.me trademark. The three ... read more ...
Wed 16th September 2009
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NameJet.com To Hold “Call To Action” .Me Auction - NameJet.com announced today it will be auctioning off 15 “Call To Action .Me domains, being released from the registry. The list of “call to action” domains auction starts on September 25th are: Chat.Me Photo.Me Monitor.Me Protect.Me Rescue.Me Answer.Me Drive.Me Rate.Me Know.Me Free.Me Review.Me Host.Me Link.Me Fix.Me Friend.Me A few of these are some of the best .Me domains I have seen on NameJet.com in while. Good luck to all. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Sun 16th August 2009
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Word Press Starts Its Own Shorting URL, Using The ONLY 2 Letter .ME In The World - WordPress (This blog is published on Word Press) has launched its own URL shorting service and picked a .me to do the trick. WP.me is designed to allow bloggers to link your blog posts to Twitter. It isn’t a general purpose URL shortener or rival to Bit.ly: it’s just for those on WordPress.com. WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg said on his Word Press Blog: WP.me is the only two-letter .me domain in the world. Every blog and post on WordPress.com has a WP.me URL now. These are all exposed in the ... read more ...
Sun 9th August 2009
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Universal Goes With Despicable.me Instead of Despicableme.com - To promote its new animated film, “Despicable Me“, Universal studios,  chose to use the domain, Despicable.Me instead of Despicableme.Com. This is the first time I have seen a .ME domain used as the promotion tool of a major feature film. Before you think that Universal was “forced into” using the .ME because it failed to secure the .Com version, think again. Universal didn’t make that mistake,  as it secured the domain Despicableme.com as well, and is  forwarding it to Despicable.me. The ... read more ...
Sun 21st June 2009
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151 More .ME Domains Hit The Auction Block At NameJet.com - NameJet.com who finished up with its first .Me domain auction of registry owned .me domains, is now going for its second round of auctions. The backorder deadline starts closing on July 2 through July 15th, for 151 .me registry owned domains. Don’t expect to find the quality of the domains that was in the first bunch. (If you want to see the results of the first .me auctions click here) There is certainly no teach.me or invite.me in this group, trust.me on this one. Actually IMHO, I can’t believe ... read more ...
Mon 25th May 2009
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Tweet.me Sells for $11,505 - Twitter related .me domain names sells for five figures. The latest premium .me domain name auction is coming to an end, and Tweet.me looks to be the winner at $11,505. I can see this being used for a Twitter service, but I’m a bit concerned about all of the services popping up that use variants of Twitter and Tweet in their names: could Twitter ever come after them for trademark infringement? Lease.me sold for $7,605 with 139 bids and Massage.me sold for $6,005 ... read more ...
Wed 20th May 2009
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.Me during 250,000: What’s Next? - 250,000 .me domain names have been registered. Here’s what it means. 250,000 .me domain names have been registered since its relaunch earlier this year. I draw two conclusions from this. First, it shows the power a registrar has in pushing a domain. .Me is run by a partnership between Afilias and GoDaddy. GoDaddy has aggressively pushed the domain and dissed others at the same time. (Bob Parsons stopped using BobParsons.tv and switched to BobParsons.me). ... read more ...
Mon 2nd March 2009
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35 More Premium .Me Going Up For Auction - The .ME Registry today announced 35 of the domains reserved by the registry will be auctioned off at Sedo.com. Online bidding for these names begins March 26, 2009 and remains open until April 02, 2009. The full list of .ME domain names available for bidding are: Add.ME Bet.ME Book.ME Clean.ME Compare.ME Discount.ME Dodaj.ME Download.ME Drink.ME Employ.ME Film.ME Join.ME Locate.ME Manage.ME Market.ME Message.ME Order.ME Pay.ME Pick.ME Power.ME Print.ME Promote.ME Remember.ME Reward.ME Ring.ME Rock.ME Sell.ME Support.ME Tell.ME Test.ME Kupi.ME Uporedi.ME Zapamti.ME Zaposli.ME Izaberi.ME Google+Michael ... read more ...
Mon 16th February 2009
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Trademark Holders Continue to Reclaim .Me Domain Names - Sprite.me and Firefox.me go back to their rightful owners. When .me launched to the general public last year, it was clear that a lot of people hadn’t heard of cybersquatting. Domain names like Porsche.me, Toyota.me, and Firefox.me were snapped up (and not my their familiar namesakes). Many of these domains were picked up at auction for a substantial amount of money. Why did .me attract so many deep pocketed cybersquatters? I can only surmise that .me attracted ... read more ...
Thu 8th January 2009
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.Me Domains Getting Developed…Slowly - Some .me domain names now resolving to “real” web sites. It’s one thing for a “new” domain extension to sell well when it launches (.eu, .mobi). The true test if a domain will retain long term value is if it is actually used and embraced on the web. As you know, I’m not a fan of .me. Yeah, it’s a cute play on domains. But once ICANN releases new top level domains, .me will just be “another domain”. A country code domain at that. .You, anyone? ... read more ...
Thu 18th December 2008
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More Top .ME On The Auction Block At DomainFest - The .ME Registry announced today five top .ME domains will go up for LIVE auction at DOMAINfest Global ’09 in Hollywood, Calif. DOMAINfest Global ’09 is set to take place Jan. 27-30, 2009, at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel. The five .ME domains available are: Contact.Me, Read.Me, Feed.Me, Alert.Me, Save.Me These .ME domains will be available in the LIVE auction, which is scheduled to take place on Thursday, Jan. 29, from 1:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. PST (4:30-8:00 ... read more ...
Tue 18th November 2008
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Global Warming May Be Hazardous to Your Domain Names - Country code domain names carry risks. Here are a couple examples. Sure is pretty. Until the water rises. This headline isn’t a joke. Here’s how global warming and subsequent rising ocean waters could doom a domain name extension. Last night I read an article in The Economist about the Maldives, an island nation planning for the day it will be below sea level. The article also mentioned Tuvalu, an even smaller island nation of just over 10,000 inhabitants. ... read more ...
Thu 6th November 2008
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Porsche.me: Money Down a Drain - Man who shelled out big bucks in .me auction kicking himself now. Pity poor Georg Kohler of Brazil. In August I wrote about how he snapped up car company names in the .me launch auctions. He even paid $90,025 for Toyota.me. Apparently he hadn’t gotten the memo from ten years ago about the dangers of owning trademarked domain names. In a recent World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) decision, he lost Porsche.me to the car company. Could his $90,000 investment ... read more ...
Wed 3rd September 2008
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.Me Domains to be Auctioned during TRAFFIC - Marry.me, Kiss.me among domain names to be auctioned at this month’s TRAFFIC conference. Following very strong results from its online auction of .me domain names, the .me registry will release the first set of withheld domains at this month’s TRAFFIC conference in Brooklyn. The registry withheld 2,500 catchy and generic domains to sell directly. Among the domains to be auctioned include: Love.Me Buy.Me Date.Me Meet.Me Ask.Me Show.Me Kiss.Me Rent.Me Watch.Me Marry.Me Loan.Me Play.Me The ... read more ...