.ME of course

For your information, three funk.me ads, summarising the first six months of .me, Nikolas and his team have uploaded on YouTube:

Posted on January 31st, 2009 • Tags: funk • Category: .ME, News • Comments (2)

If your first guess was that .me sites will be popular among English speakers, most probably you were right. As more than 90% of .me domains were sold to people outside Montenegro, it makes sense that mere 10% of pages are in Serbian plus some 2% in Croatian and 2% in Slovenian, languages spoken in […]

Posted on January 28th, 2009 • Tags: Chinese, Croatian, English, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, languages, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian • Category: .ME, Analysis • Comments (3)

With 2 million web pages indexed by Google, .me.uk, a British second level country code domain, only represents 0.3% of nearly 700 million .uk pages. Not a great success at all. Considering 500+ million of .co.uk pages (British equivalent of .com), 109 million of gov.uk (government), 30 million of .org.uk, 25 million of ac.uk (British […]

Posted on January 24th, 2009 • Tags: British, UK • Category: .ME, Discussions, UK • Comments (7)

Now, that the .me rush is cooling down, at least with all top names taken, we have analysed 3269 top English words including 1000 commonly used verbs. At the beginning, our analysts filtered out 30 one-letter and 54 two-letter words. This formed a basis set of 3185 common English words available for domainers, starting from […]

Posted on January 19th, 2009 • Tags: domainer, Domainers, go live, investor, investors, land rush, top • Category: .LY, .ME, Analysis, Discussions, Examples • Comments (10)

its.me is an official country code Second Level Domain (ccSLD), like that of co.uk, me.uk, co.au… It is managed by .ME registry. So far, it is not too popular and many good names are still available, Italy.its.me, Shanghai.its.me, Cannes.its.me to name a few. People get their own its.me, e.g.: photographer.its.me, perper.its.me or italo.its.me. Most of […]

Posted on January 17th, 2009 • Tags: it's me • Category: .ME, Examples, Registry (.ME) • Comments (2)

Bob Parsons, the maverick pioneer in the domain industry and the founder of GoDaddy, just set up his blog to BobParsons.Me. In his video blog, he touts .me as one of the top domain stories of 2008. GoDaddy has nearly 30% share of the worlds domain market and it consistently wins awards for its high-level […]

Posted on January 16th, 2009 • Tags: Bob Parsons, GoDaddy • Category: .COM, .ME, Discussions, Examples • Comments (12)

Continuing on Date.me, Love.me, Luv.me post: Premium LUV.ME is being AUCTIONED now at SEDO (ending on 15th of January). To visit the bidding page please go to: https://www.sedo.co.uk/auction/auction_detail.php?tracked=&partnerid=44384&language=e&auction_id=47825 Background information relevant to LUV.ME: * date.me went for $70,000 * love.me went for $32,000 * luv.me = love.me (common English) * it is a three-letter domain […]

Posted on January 12th, 2009 • Tags: auction, love, LUV • Category: .ME, Examples • Comments (7)

Apparent.ly, not only M.E. stays for Middle East but also for the State of Maine, with thousands of web sites grabbed and already developed and good Google Page Rank too: http://www.yourvote.me/ – Your Maine Election Guide http://upperkennebecvalleychamber.me/ – Upper Kennebec Valley Chamber of Commerce http://www.mainelandforsale.me/ – Find Maine Land for Sale http://mainelobster.me/ – The World’s […]

Posted on January 9th, 2009 • Tags: The State of Maine • Category: .US, Examples • Comments (5)

A number of .ME web sites are used by Middle East ventures. Of course, M.E. stays for Middle East. What else? ;0 Some good examples are: http://sheilds.me/ – SHEilds Middle East Health and Safety Training http://www.businessbuyandsell.me/ – Business Buy and Sell Middle East – Great business & franchise opportunities… http://www.psytrance.me/ – Psychedelic Trance in the […]

Posted on January 7th, 2009 • Tags: Middle East • Category: .ME, Examples • Comments (9)