Did You Purchase Your dot ME (.me) Domain Yet?
Shoemoney posted a blog yesterday about the new TLD .ME to become available on Thursday July 17, 200 at 8:00am Pacific time. I knew that this was going to be happening soon but had not paid much attention to it.
So after a lot of discussion in the comments section of Shoemoney Blog, I got hooked.
http://www.shoemoney.com/2008/07/16/me-landrush-starts-8am-pst-tomorrow/#comment-77594
Last night I made a hot list of about a hundred domains that I thought would be really really cool, knowing full well that I would not be buying more that two or three, but Hey I can dream can’t I?
Well naturally even with all best plans to lurk over the keyboard with my finger poised watching the second hand just like on an Ebay snipe, I totally forgot about it. LOL
So about noon Eastern time I signed on to GoDaddy and sure enough the dot ME was being sold. So I started down my list, SOLD, SOLD, SOLD, SOLD, etc, etc. You get the idea. Then lo and behold I got one! Then another, then another! What a shock. I’m not going to brag about what they are yet because some of the discussion on Shoemoney was that if domains had multiple requests, they would go in a bidding war.
I don’t know if that bidding war stuff is real or not, I can’t find anything in the fine print, and I did get a receipt and then a confirmation email. Incidentally I used the coupon (gdp0422v - Save 20% off $75 or more.) It saved me over twenty bucks.
You pay $19.99 per year with a two year minimum, so it isn’t exactly a bargain domain name.
What do you think about this new domain name .ME? It is the country domain name for Montenegero, but anyone may purchase one, as far as I know. We reported in a previous post on this Blog about ICANN opening up possibilities for any TLD name that you want. Read about the ICANN Paris announcement on a previous Link Money dot org post.
Can you think of some good .ME names? As I understand it there are no two letter names available, but I did snag a good three letter one.
Would you take a gamble on a dot ME domain name? It might tie up your money for a while and then if the scuttlebut is any where near true, you might even lose it after you have made the purchase. In that case I guess GoDaddy would likely have many millions of dollars in their interest bearing accounts before they have to issue a refund.
Let us know what your thoughts are on the .ME domains.
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Read more on this dot ME Fiasco on another Link Money dot org post.
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Pingback by More on the GoDaddy dot ME (.me) Fiasco | LinkMoney.org — July 19, 2008 @ 12:25 pm
Awe man, I was trying to get in on the rush too. I normally don’t do anything with domains, but I figured if I could snag some could ones quick I could turn them for a massive profit.
Didn’t manage to get me any though… I tried funny pun ones like “kill.me” and “bite.me” but no such luck. Ah well… so goes the business
Comment by The Net Fool — July 20, 2008 @ 7:18 pm
I used DomainMonster.com and got 95% of my pre-orders within 3 minutes of opening. There are still lots of good names available. Search domain.me whois using partial search (%). If anyone is interested, I have started a free registry for .ME domain owners at http://www.dotmewebsites.com where they can list what they got and do self-promotion via cross-linking.
Comment by Mark Kolb — July 21, 2008 @ 2:58 pm
It has been a intresting time the launched of Dot Me
I personally think it’s a good invest , I tried to reg few domain like biography.me , pizza.me date and many more i paid for goodaddy and looked like i got few of those name but after an hour goodaddy send me a letter it has been a problem and that the name had already been reg and my money will soon be refund .
But i mangae to have http://www.skater.me , justyou.me , charisma.me .
I am working on http://www.skater.me which is dedicated to skaters video world ( video sharing)
Check it out http://www.skater.me and send a comments.
Cheers
Comment by Deependro — July 26, 2008 @ 10:58 am
Hey skater.me
That is a pretty cool idea. Let’s hope you become the next big social site. who knows maybe Google will buy you for $200 million!
Thanks for posting your comments.
Rich Hill
Comment by rich — July 26, 2008 @ 1:16 pm
To whomever is reading this and thinking about registering a web name or playing with names for your website.
DO NOT USE GODADDY - unless you purchase your webname seconds after searching to see if it’s available.
123-reg is a safe bet.
Domain parking is something which should be banned period.
Regards
SolReka
Brighter Energy Solutions
Comment by SolReka — July 28, 2008 @ 6:00 pm
SolReka,
GoDaddy has become my least favorite registrar after this last mess with the dot ME deal. However I did secure one last week that I have not built up yet bacuse I’m waiting for the other shoe to drop and I still can’t believe that it is mine. More on that in a future post.
I’ll check out 123-reg.
Thanks for the comments.
Rich
Comment by rich — July 28, 2008 @ 6:25 pm
Dot Me presents marketing opportunites galore with websites targeted personally like
http://www.canadian.me and
http://www.beerdrinker.me
Comment by Mark Kolb — July 29, 2008 @ 4:04 pm
Hey Mark, thanks for the comment!
You’re absolutely right, eh?
Those are two fabulous sites. I did finally purchase one that I think will be killer, but I’m not bragging yet until I get it going, then I will tell the world!
Keep in touch man.
All the best.
Rich
Comment by rich — July 29, 2008 @ 5:42 pm
snipe bidding…
It has since been implemented in most other blogging tools. (Blogger now has backlinks - very similar to the trackback feature in Movable…
Trackback by snipe bidding — September 13, 2008 @ 12:01 am
Not sure just what you are talking about, but your website looks valid so we’ll leave this in.
Rich
Comment by rich — September 13, 2008 @ 12:28 am