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insure.me
The legend of prime dot me land rush auctions, insure.me, won by Timothy Warbington from Arizona after nearly a month of bidding (278 bids were placed in July-August) and lump sum payment of $68,104.98 cash, is final.ly online, as a teaser, promising to launch a service with free access to health, life, auto and home [...]

Posted on December 29th, 2008 • Tags: branding, finance, insure, loan, Marketing, mortgage, remortgage • Category: .BIZ, .COM, .INFO, .ME, Discussions, Examples • Comments (2)

The Economist : Business : Managing the Facebookers : The balance of power between old-school managers and young talent is changing—a bit
Their defenders say they are motivated, versatile workers who are just what companies need in these difficult times. To others, however, the members of “Generation Y”—those born in the 1980s and 1990s, otherwise known [...]

Posted on December 29th, 2008 • Tags: brand, Facebook, The Economist • Category: .ME, Branding, Discussions, Marketing • Leave a comment

The flashy movie featuring premium domains

about.me
email.me
enjoy.me
fly.me
learn.me
search.me
shop.me

can be found here: http://domain.me/slideshow.swf

Posted on December 28th, 2008 • Tags: domain.me • Category: .ME, Examples, Marketing, Registry (.ME) • Comments (3)

British advertisers don’t stop providing us with the best “me” slogans. This time it is an outdoor posters for Film Office:
Know Your Lines: mysterious and romantic drama about war
Film: Atonement, 2007
Director: Joe Wright
Novel: Ian McEwan
Screenplay: Christopher Hampton
Released: 7th of September 2007 (UK)
IMDB: 7.9
In fact, this is another poster for Harry Potter and the Order of [...]

Posted on December 23rd, 2008 • Tags: advertisement, film, London, UK • Category: .ME, .US, Discussions, Examples • Leave a comment

Wherever you go, marketing wise, “me” keeps on popping up in the advertising jingles. “Cheap Hotels for Me – Search over 5,000 UK and European Hotels”, right in the middle of the home page:
And now, let’s design CheapHotels4.Me or CheapHotelsFor.Me. The former, is apparent.ly much better.

Posted on December 20th, 2008 • Tags: cheap, hotels • Category: .ME, Examples • Comments (1)

Another example from London Tube, advertising police community support officers:

I wonder how long will it take for careersplus.me or policejob4.me to be picked up?
With jobs4.me, a well recognised slogan in various countries, let’s give it another year.

Posted on December 16th, 2008 • Tags: jobs, London, police, Tube • Category: .ME, Examples • Leave a comment

Surprise, surprise, late.ly was registered by Matt Mullenweg, a WordPress founder. Matt loves domains hacks and he probab.ly already has something in mind of it. In any case, it is a good token for .ly’s.
In last two months, the Libyan registry was busy with cashing in, people final.ly started to buy .ly’s.
So during 9th-12th of [...]

Posted on December 15th, 2008 • Category: .LY, Discussions • Comments (20)

All possible envyme.com’s are taken. Even envyme.us with some decent forum… With envyme.com and envyme.biz being beauty blogs it simply cannot go wrong. A nice teaser indeed.
This is probably what Chris Sanders from California was thinking when he was buying envy.me during the land rush auction for mere $1,113.99 only after 29 bids. Well, that was back in August, [...]

Posted on December 15th, 2008 • Tags: envy me • Category: .COM, .ME, .NET, .ORG, .TV, .US, Examples • Leave a comment

Social Me is a fan club with some 50K+ supporters (as of 11th of December 2008) on Facebook.

However, despite been a great initiative they lack the website. All they came up with so far was:
http://Being
http://unable
http://to
http://have
http://website
http://you
http://can
http://still
http://join
http://the
http://SOCIAL
http://ME
http://ADDICTS
http://group!!!!
Domain social.me was not a premium .me domain. It went for $2,215.00 after 52 bids during .me land rush auctions. However, [...]

Posted on December 11th, 2008 • Tags: social • Category: .COM, .ME, Discussions, Examples • Comments (2)